THE BLOG: At the Threshold
When a retirement account is inherited, the most common instinct is also the most expensive one, which is to take the money out.
It feels like resolution. The account belonged to someone who is gone,...
The most expensive misunderstanding in American retirement planning is the belief that Medicare pays for long term care.
It generally does not. Medicare covers medical care. It will cover a limited s...
There is a stretch of years, usually somewhere between forty five and sixty five, when a woman can find herself financially responsible in three directions at once.
Upward, toward parents who need mo...
Divorce after fifty is a different event than divorce at thirty five, and treating them the same is how women end up in trouble.
The emotional differences are obvious enough. A longer marriage, adult...
The decision rarely arrives as a decision. It arrives as a series of small adjustments. You leave early to make an appointment. You turn down the project that requires travel. You move to part time, j...
Caregiving is one of the most common financial transitions a woman will move through, and one of the least discussed. We talk about divorce. We talk about widowhood. We rarely sit down and name what i...
