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Help ensure that those your client wants to inherit the account assets are the ones who actually do.

Generosity is no longer the selfless act we’ve long thought it to be. Studies now suggest that one of the biggest benefactors of generosity is the person who is dishing it out.

Many wealthy Americans, it turns out, are more fixated on spending and giving away their wealth than making sure their kids get a big inheritance.

The Better Angels: The wealth revolution is changing the way Americans give to charity. Nonprofits have to adapt or be left behind.

Many people want to use part of their estate to help charities they believe in—leaving a legacy of helping out the less fortunate, nurturing the arts or supporting other important causes.

The failure of the bipartisan debt reduction committee to reach agreement means there are likely to be drastic cuts in federal spending that will result in many more Americans looking to the charitable sector to meet their needs.

If you make a donation worth $250 or more to an IRS-approved charity, you must receive a qualified “contemporaneous written acknowledgement” from the charity to claim a charitable deduction.

It’s your money, and you’re willing to give some of it away to a worthy cause. But you want to see results.

The signs of distress in the world of philanthropy are no more vividly illustrated than at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, Calif.

For those 70-1/2 and older, how to take advantage of this tax deal.