The $255 one-time benefit that Social Security pays when someone dies can only be paid to a spouse who was living in the same household with the deceased at the time of death. This also applies if the ...

The death of a spouse can turn a person’s world upside down. How to cope with a spouse’s death The pain doesn’t get easier even if your partner had been sick and you had been expecting them to pass.

In their own words, women speak about the hardest times after the death of their husband.

You have certain rights, such as a homestead right, as a surviving spouse. These are provided by either the Texas Constitution or by statute. Death works a division of the community property assets.