Knowing when to stop paying a loved one's bills after they die can help you avoid costly financial mistakes.

Dear Liz: Our dad is 93 and has a reverse mortgage on his house, where he lived until recently with my brother and my brother’s friend. In August, we had to move Dad into assisted living. Shortly ...

Q. Our mom passed away, leaving her house to A. She left all her other assets to B, C and D. The house is appraised at $400,000. The total value of the other assets is also $400,000. All the ...

Editor's note: Benny L. Kass is now writing the Real Estate Mailbag column in place of Robert J. Bruss, who died last month. Q:My siblings and I inherited my father's house, which he bought in 2003 in ...

Aaron Broverman is the Managing Editor of Forbes Advisor Canada. He has almost 20 years of experience writing in the personal finance space for outlets such as Bankrate, Bankrate Canada, ...

Debt collectors have a limited time to make claims against an estate, so it's important to know that firm deadline.