Published: May 8, 2026 at 12:42\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n
State laws vary, but if you have a Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, or UTMA, account for your child, at some point you will need to put the account directly in their name, typically after they turn 21. <\/p>\n
In the Fix My Portfolio<\/a> column, Beth Pinsker shared her own experience and offered advice on how to prepare your children to take control of their money<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a92026 MarketWatch, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: May 8, 2026 at 12:42\u202fp.m. ET State laws vary, but if you have a Uniform Transfers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[3500,289,67210,7575,79,85042,85833,209063,209061,17733,87187,11715,85036,209060,41570,13782,41565,6046,85035,18,35567,41571,78968,3334,5568,19,91735,41586,17,1557,209062,610,723,80702,21958,9220,55699,778,2336,234,102081,235,9436,44285,3797,3700,2895,190,19506,5577,34520,85041,6408,87186],"class_list":{"0":"post-477322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","11":"tag-bond-markets","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-bxtmubmusd10y","14":"tag-ce-exclusion-filter","15":"tag-career-planning","16":"tag-career-planning-management","17":"tag-commentary","18":"tag-commentary-opinion","19":"tag-commodity","20":"tag-commodity-financial-market-news","21":"tag-computer-peripherals","22":"tag-content-types","23":"tag-corporate","24":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","25":"tag-debt","26":"tag-debt-bond-markets","27":"tag-eire","28":"tag-equity-markets","29":"tag-factiva-filters","30":"tag-financial-market-news","31":"tag-general-news","32":"tag-generative-ai","33":"tag-ie","34":"tag-industrial-electrical-equipment","35":"tag-industrial-news","36":"tag-ireland","37":"tag-job-search","38":"tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-snco20260508012326","39":"tag-machine-learning","40":"tag-management","41":"tag-memory-chips","42":"tag-micron-technology-inc","43":"tag-mu","44":"tag-nvda","45":"tag-nvidia-corp","46":"tag-opinion","47":"tag-personal-finance","48":"tag-personal-investments","49":"tag-personalfinance","50":"tag-political","51":"tag-political-general-news","52":"tag-recruitment","53":"tag-relationships","54":"tag-retirement-planning","55":"tag-sp-500-index","56":"tag-semiconductors","57":"tag-social-services","58":"tag-spx","59":"tag-u-s-10-year-treasury-note","60":"tag-welfare","61":"tag-welfare-social-services"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}