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My husband and I built careers in tech and law. In our 40s, we sold our house, traveled for a year, and left both industries.

We lived with our two greyhounds in an over-3,000-square-foot home outside Boston that we owned. We were both hustling and climbing the corporate ladder — he in the tech industry, and I at a law ...

My husband and I are suspicious of how his inheritance was disbursed, but he doesn't want to break family trust. What should we do?

"For Love & Money" answers your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader is suspicious of the handling of her ...
MarketWatch

‘I’ve opened a hornet’s nest’: My mother-in-law lists my husband as beneficiary on her $1 million IRA. But her will does not. Which wins?

My mother-in-law is 86 and my sister-in-law is 58. My sister-in-law wants to have guardianship of my mother-in-law. They both reside in an apartment my husband and I built in Wisconsin to accommodate ...
MassLive

Dear Abby: My mother-in-law is making my husband’s incarceration harder

Dear Abby: I am married to a man who is incarcerated. As you can imagine, it’s been hard on our family. I have two kids with him. I was pregnant with our youngest when he was arrested. According to ...
MarketWatch

My mother-in-law stole $25,000 from my husband’s emergency fund. We donated to charity rather than give her a birthday gift — and she cried foul.

Shortly after my husband and I married, he discovered his mother had been using a power of attorney to withdraw thousands of dollars at a time from one of his bank accounts. She took $25,000. As his ...
NJ.com

Dear Annie: My mother-in-law told my husband he’d be better off if he left me

DEAR ANNIE: I’ve been married to my husband for 25 years. My mother-in-law is not a nice woman. She will be lovely to someone’s face but then talk trash about them the moment they leave. Over the ...

Asking Eric: My father-in-law’s illness has complicated my marriage

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who feels abandoned while their spouse is caring for their ill parent.