When planning gifts for children on your holiday list, you might want to think beyond the traditional retail offerings. Consider financial gifts that can bestow benefits for many years to come. Some financial gift options you might consider:

Good customer service leads to repeat sales and referrals, which lead to higher revenues and profits. The result is a stronger, more secure business. Your sales staff knows this well. Their results are directly affected by customer perceptions. Other em­ployees, such as those in support and back office functions, may not think of themselves as serving the customer. But every employee has an impact, direct or indirect, on customer experience. An incorrect shipment, a late delivery,

That ticking you hear is the tax clock winding down – quickly. There is only a very short time left to cut your taxes for 2015. Here are moves you can still make before year-end.

A woman who received part of her ex-husband’s civil service pension at divorce was also entitled to share in his later cost-of-living adjustments, the Kentucky Court of Appeals recently decided. When the couple divorced, the pension was divided equally between the husband and wife.

The fact that a father was given a lengthy prison sentence for drug offenses doesn’t automatically mean he should lose his parental rights, says the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The state had argued that the father’s rights should be terminated due to “abandonment and neglect.”

When you’re going through a divorce, one of the biggest fouls you can commit is trying to hide assets so you can keep them for yourself. It’s usually easy to get caught, and you can be severely punished for not being truthful.

We’ve all heard horror stories about personal privacy and identity theft. That’s why many people shred all their sensitive documents after they no longer need them – including credit card bills, bank statements, older tax documents, and anything with PIN or Social Security numbers. But what about divorce papers?