Advice for Handling an Inheritance

Any planning you can do in advance can make the whole process go more smoothly. Dreamstime/TCABy Janet Bodnar From Kiplinger’s Personal FinanceLately I’ve been getting a lot of news releases about what’s being called the Great Wealth Transfer—upwards of $124 trillion that could change hands between generations over the next 10 to 20 years. And much of that inheritance will likely end up in the hands of women—wives, daughters, siblings, granddaughters—if for no other reason than women tend to outlive men.