Families struggling to care for elderly turn to mediation – Trained mediators increasingly are helping families at odds when it comes to resolving emotional disputes over the care and finances of aging parents.

Divorce and the Shared Mortgage – Deciding what to do with the house can be a major quandary for couples getting a divorce, particularly when they share a mortgage.

Repossessions spike 66% as foreclosure crisis lingers – New foreclosures may be back to nearly normal, but the mess from the epic housing disaster in the last decade is far from gone. Bank repossessions, the final stage of the foreclosure process, jumped 66 percent year over year in the third quarter of this year, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure sales and analytics company. It’s the largest annual rise ever recorded in bank repossessions by RealtyTrac. More than 123,000 homes went back to the bank in just three months.