3.0 out of 5 stars
HANDLING YOUR MONEY WHEN LIVING TOGETHER, September 24, 2010
This review is from: Financial Fitness for Living Together (Paperback)
Elizabeth S. Lewin, CFP
Financial Fitness for Living Together
(New York: Facts on File, 1996) 168 pages
(ISBN: 0-8160-3281-5; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: HG179.L473 1996)
A financial planner gives detailed instructions
for handling the following issues that arise when
people live together without being married:
keeping financial records of income and expenditures;
assessing net worth, separately and together;
spending plans and cash flow;
handling debts, credit, & loans;
saving and investing;
preparing for retirement and retiring;
pension plans, now and when you retire;
financing housing, different forms of ownership;
supporting children in college;
all forms of insurance;
estate planning.
Most of the information included applies to everyone,
--married or not, gay or straight--
who combine their finances in any ways.
Some of the tax information is out of date,
so look for a more recent edition of this book
or another like it for that information.
If you follow all of the advice in this book,
you are certain to have a healthier financial life together.
If you would like to find similar books,
search the Internet for the following exact words:
"UNMARRIED COUPLES---RELATIONSHIP CONTRACTS---BEST BOOKS".
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