Close any joint credit lines. Prepare to divide the assets you have in investment and retirement accounts. Retirement accounts have specific rules dictating how this is done. If you and your ex ...

Funding the government is often a contentious and chaotic affair as it requires the parties to agree on budgets that are subject to a 60-vote threshold in the closely divided 100-member Senate.

US lawmakers scrambled Friday to reach an agreement on funding federal agencies through the New Year to avert a damaging government shutdown due to begin in just seven days.

US lawmakers scrambled Friday to reach an agreement on funding federal agencies through the New Year to avert a damaging government shutdown due to begin in just seven days. Out of time to finalize a ...