Dec 22nd 2011 8:00AM
By Kimberly Lankford Q. We're retired, and this is the first year that we plan to spend the winter in Florida, leaving our home in New Jersey unoccupied. Are there any special steps we should take before we leave? Here are several special banking and insurance moves that can help snowbirds protect their finances and... Continue Reading »
May 12th 2011 5:43PM
Recently we wrote about real estate and divorce. But breakups aren't the only partings that can get messy when it comes to property. Death has a way of sending real estate holdings into the same kind of turmoil. Should the daughter who moved in with her mother to take care of her be allowed to live in the house after Mom... Continue Reading »
Oct 18th 2010 4:14PM
Dennis Hopper's widow Victoria Duffy (pictured left) is in a heated estate battle with her adult stepchildren that is an extension of the legal wranglings that started when Hopper filed for divorce in January -- a divorce that wasn't final by the time the 74-year-old actor's death in May from complications of prostate... Continue Reading »
Oct 15th 2010 3:35PM
Dennis Hopper's 15,500-square-foot compound remains the center of a heated court battle between his estranged wife and his adult children from previous marriages. The price on the Venice, Calif. property has been slashed for a second time, to $4.799 million -- down nearly 25 percent from its original July list price of... Continue Reading »
