What the court actually did was to isolate our poorest residents at the most difficult moment in their personal lives. Armed only with forms they are not trained to understand, they can only hope the ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject matter expert, ...

Q: After 12 years, we are going our separate ways. We have a daughter who we both love, we both work, and we have accumulated certain valuable assets. Is legal separation a better idea than divorce? P ...

Tim (not his real name) and his live-in girlfriend come to meet me. Jamie wants to get married, “We’ve been living together for five years and it’s time!” she says. “I have been more than patient, but ...