Inheritance tax at 40 per cent is paid by a relatively small but growing number of people's estates. Those whose home or savings drags them into the inheritance tax net often want to avoid loved ones ...

Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

Once a person has addressed the emotional questions around what to do with the inheritance, I can begin to create a custom financial action plan. Educating people about their new wealth is part of ...

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Managing your taxes can be one of the most complex aspects of estate planning and a new IRS rule change continues that trend. The rule, published at the end of March, changes how the step-up in basis ...

Genetic disorders are diseases caused by an abnormality in a gene, often described as a mutation. When such diseases are inherited (rather than resulting from a random mutation), they are passed along ...

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