Bogleheads

Thanks for your answer.

I see now that for gifts made during calendar year 2009 I must file
the 2009 Form 709 no earlier than January 1, 2010, but not later
than April 15, 2010.

In Feb 2009 my wife and I contributed $124,000 to a 529 for our children. As I understand it, both my wife and I can file form 709 "United States Gift (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Retur ...

I will be buying a good quality acoustic upright in the next couple of weeks. I think I will be spending around $5,000.00.

Is there a source for prices paid for acoustic piano's? The price-list I h ...

Valuethinker - Good point. I can confirm that living in the U.S. (and not the U.K), will make no difference to the U.K. pension I receive. But I'll have to check what happens if I decide to retire to, ...

I live and work in the U.S but was born and worked in the U.K. I am thinking of paying U.K. social security contributions so that I can qualify for a U.K. pension. Even restricting ourselves to the pe ...

Wow. I am glad I came to all of you for advice. The new bottom line is:

Good health coverage is essential if you wish to drop UM. But an additional consideration is whether you have enough assets ...

BruceM and tfb - good points about differences in coverages. The insurance company has a +ve expectation from selling me a policy and so I did not run the numbers. But using the rule of thumb that you ...

Clark Howard mentioned this in a podcast recently. He says that if you have passengers in the car and are injured by a motorist without insurance that the passenger can sue you for damages. Since th ...

Let us assume that you have company health and short/long-term disability insurance. You also drive an older car and have sufficient means to cover it loss and so decide to only carry liability (with ...