Marriages, though comforting and life-long, are also incredibly hard, which is why divorce has become relatively common these days, and with good reason, helping both partners move on from an unhappy marriage, and (hopefully) find someone who is more suited to them. However, what happens when a couple decides to …
Marriage inevitably involves financial compromises both small and large. Joint or individual checking accounts? How much is too much to spend on a car? Name-brand or store-brand groceries? When a couple remarries late in life, the stakes get higher. How should the expenses for those bucket-list retirement trips be divided? …
The March 21, 2020, wedding of Julie Samuels and Joe Hillyer in Montclair, N.J., ushered in an unparalleled time for the Vows and Mini-Vows columns. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and its crowd-size and social-distancing mandates, couples had to get creative about how to pull off weddings. Ms. Samuels and …
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Here’s a pop quiz for married couples. Do you know your spouse’s salary? What about the balance of your partner’s 401(k) — and credit card? Bonus points if you can cite how much your husband or wife thinks you need to live comfortably in retirement, or even what age he …
When Nia Darville Stokes-Hicks and Armondi Stokes-Hicks married two years ago, they set up five bank accounts. Each had an individual bank account for personal spending, and they shared a checking account for paying household bills. They had a joint savings account. And they had yet another account for money …
That my husband, Reed, was texting the other woman just three days into our honeymoon wasn’t surprising. He had been falling in love with her for months. What was surprising was that we had gone through with our wedding despite the mounting evidence that our relationship might collapse under the …