Hurried trip down the aisle nixes widow’s survivor benefits
Waiting until age 60 or later to remarry preserves Social Security benefits.
Patience is indeed a virtue. That's the platitude that came to mind when Caroline Emswiler, a financial adviser with Wealth Financial Consultants in Eden Prairie, Minn., wrote to me to ask about a widow who remarried last summer a few weeks shy of her 60th birthday.
“My assistant's father died tw
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