Dear Moneyist, For most of his life, my father has lived a life of crime and drugs. He threw away every opportunity we gave him, financial or otherwise. He was never really around besides the odd note written on yellow legal paper that I would get from time to time,Read More →
Dear Moneyist, When my father passed away, he left his house and all his money to my son. I was not included in the will. I took care of my father seven days a week when he came back from the hospital. I never received any payment from him exceptRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My youngest sister persuaded my father to sell his home and buy her a property with two residences: a small town house for him and a nice four-bedroom house for her and her family. My father recently passed away. We discovered that our sister’s mother-in-law is an attorney.Read More →
Dear Moneyist, I have what I hope is a simple question. My stepmom and father gave me $16,000 from their joint savings days before my dad passed away. She said it was a gift. Now that he has passed, she wants the money back. I paid $2,000 for the funeral. Also see:Read More →
Dear Moneyist, My 93-year-old father has dementia. He married his second wife, who is 91, four years ago. He did not make a last will and testament, and cannot legally make one now because of his dementia. He is not expected to live much longer because of heart problems. MyRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I recently found out through a DNA test through 23andMe that my “daughter” isn’t mine. I was forced to marry, thinking the baby was mine. My wife passed away in 1990. Can I claim back child support from the biological father? I reside in Pennsylvania. Thank you. AlRead More →
Dear Moneyist, Several years after my mother’s death, my father remarried. My stepmother is an insecure, manipulative woman. Because my father seems happy to be with her, I keep those feelings to myself, other than confiding in my partner. My stepmother is eight years younger than my father, and weRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I am my dad’s power of attorney. He was in the hospital for the entire month of November due to brain seizures. He is 82 and will soon be moved to an independent senior facility with a home health-care nurse. He was a hoarder — not like onRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My father married a woman this summer and they were together for a year and a half before that. She made him happy and I really appreciate that. My father had a heart attack two weeks after the wedding and ultimately passed away. Also see: Can I leaveRead More →
Dear Moneyist, Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by himRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My dad is in his late 80s and in failing health. He shuts down any plan I or my siblings come up with to help with his health (like use the oxygen tank that his doctor prescribed) and I have accepted that he is probably not long forRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I am a 23-year-old female who is in a relationship with a 30-year-old man. We have been together for the past four years and now have a 1-year-old together. He also has one child from a previous relationship. He has a career in the Navy and is planningRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My children’s father passed away this past August. He had remarried not long before that and settled in Chapel Hill, N.C. He did have a will, but did not specify individual items to be given to his relatives. His new wife (AKA my children’s stepmother) is having aRead More →
Dear Moneyist, A Georgetown University undergraduate student whose dad has already pleaded guilty to participating in a nationwide college admissions bribery scheme is now suing the school to try to stop disciplinary action from the university. I believe he should be expelled and the credit he earned should be withheld.Read More →
Dear Moneyist, When I was two years old, I was kidnapped by my father’s family and my mother was told that I had been killed in a car accident. I found her 5 years ago. She died in January 2018. When I met her, she had married another man. SheRead More →
Dear Moneyist, While my father was on his deathbed, he gave his debit card to his girlfriend to buy him something to eat. He was obviously not in the right state of mind. I was not there for this and found out some time later. Since then, his girlfriend hasRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I have a question regarding my fiancé and his father. My fiancé’s father owns his own business that my fiancé has worked at on and off for the better part of a decade. The hours are always sporadic, as is the pay. My fiancé’s father tends to withholdRead More →
David Stockman, the so-called “Father of Reaganomics,” is at it again with his most recent prognostication of doom for Wall Street and the broader economy, even as the stock market tests fresh highs for the year. The 72-year-old politician and businessman, who was the director of Office of Management andRead More →