All this talk of financial contribution
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All this talk of financial contribution
| Thu, 07-29-2004 - 6:37pm |
has me wondering. Personally we don't look at money as mine and his. We have all joint accounts. Neither of us has to check with the other on purchases. We buy what we need, when we want to. I don't get razzed for buying clothes, nor does he.
I've made a 6 figure income for the past 10+ years. My husband has in the past, but, he is now taking time off to stay home with our twins while I work flat out for the next 2 years. I won't make him beholdant to me because I'm earning more than he, anymore than he would, or did with me. In fact the only people in our home who have their own accounts are our twins (college fund and savings/trust fund).
I just don't get the "my money/your money" mentality. I don't get using "my" money for a vacation, or "his" money for a car. Its all our money in our house...
Just wondering how it works in your house:-)
MM, B&E

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I wouldn't trade those years, my college years, my early twenties for anything different.
I agree. With these examples of what they consider "fun", I would have been miserable & unhappy in those years from 13-25 or whatever.
I'm glad they had fun, I'm glad that is what they wanted to do. As it should be.
Paige
Good grief.
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
None of this matters anymore anyway because this past January he got married. He married a wonderful woman who makes him SO happy. I am certainly not going to inherit anything now unless he has specified in his Will that my half brother and I are to get anything. Even if I weren't adopted, this would be true. And you know what? I agree with you. WHO CARES! If he wants my brother to have anything, he will make a Will that states it.
Couldn't all of these issues be solved with a Will? Even if inheritance $ is put into a joint account, can't you have a trust set up in a Will that states that all of your children to get a certain amount of $ in trust when you die? This question isn't addressed to you in particular. But I am sure some of the attorneys around here can answer, if it hasn't already been answered.
Tracy
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
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