It was an overcast February day when I met my ex-husband in a parking lot so I could sign away our house mortgage to him — the very last of our joint assets after finalizing our divorce a couple of ...

When I retired as editor of Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine, one of the things at the top of my to-do list was to clean out my closets and get rid of other assorted stuff that had accumulated over ...

When I bought my “dream” home, I thought I’d made it. A four-bedroom house in an established neighborhood that I fully paid off before I turned 35 — the American dream, right? But a few years later, I ...