A sole proprietor and his business exists as a single legal entity; thus, when the owner of a small business dies, the business ceases to exist. This is true unless the beneficiaries decide to keep ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Losing a loved one is never easy, and dealing with their digital life can add another layer of stress during an already difficult time. John from Northampton, Pennsylvania, reached out with a question ...

When someone dies there's not much else that can happen to them, right? Actually there is. It usually falls to the harried and grieving family members to make sure it doesn't. The threat is identity ...

Amy Fontinelle is a freelance writer, researcher and editor who brings a journalistic approach to personal finance content. Since 2004, she has worked with lenders, real estate agents, consultants, ...

Update: On Tuesday, Diana Gonzalez told News4 that Facebook has honored her request to remove her sister's page - and removed it from the site. Facebook has more than 1 billion users, but what happens ...

Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

Elise Allen, 13, of Temple Hills, Maryland, has quite the summer story to tell her friends. According to the Social Security Administration, the teen is deceased. “I’m right here. I’m living,” said ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has completed its "cleanup" of Social Security death records, the federal initiative has announced. DOGE has been inspecting and working on the Social ...