Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage: Handling Delicate Financial Issues Intelligently and Lovingly [Paperback]

Patricia Estess (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 2001

Written for anyone contemplating -- or already in -- a remarriage, this book is a complete and indispensable guide to the financial systems, options, and solutions that work. Here, told in a lively, anecdotal, and empathetic manner, is everything you need to know about handling your money in a remarriage, as well as resolving the complicated emotions connected with the subject.Anyone who has said "I do" more than once knows that the financial considerations of a remarriage are remarkably different from those of a first marriage. Remarrieds walk down the aisle with a heavy train of financial responsibilities -- especially if they have dependent children from another marriage. They may bring unequal assets to the union. They often face financial strain when they decide to have a child. They are financially tied to former spouses -- even husbands of former spouses. Figuring out how to deal with these complexities at the same time one is dealing with the other aspects of remarriage can seem overwhelming.By providing financial-planning advice and ideas, illustrated with solutions other remarried couples have come up with, Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage helps you deal sensibly, practically, and constructively with the countless financial aggravations and pressures that occur in remarriage. Topics addressed include: allocating assets fairly; whether or not to have a prenuptial agreement; deciding where to live and how to pay for it; sending the children/stepchildren to college -- whose responsibility is it, anyway?; establishing a viable checking system; sharing everyday financial chores; drawing up an estate plan that's fair to all family members; saving intelligently for retirement.Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage addresses less concrete but equally "hot" interpersonal issues: communicating effectively about financial matters; resolving disputes arising from different money styles and approaches t

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About the Author

Patricia Schiff Estess is the author of Kids, Money & Values, and the former editor of Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance magazine. She writes extensively on family and monetary topics for such magazines as Reader's Digest's New Choices, Entrepreneur, Family Money, and others, and has just updated this best seller that first was published in 1992. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (January 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595169090
• ISBN-13: 978-0595169092
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Practical Advice ... But ...., December 29, 2003

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This review is from: Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage: Handling Delicate Financial Issues Intelligently and Lovingly (Paperback)

I have just read the first 44 pages ... And ... The concepts and suggestions are excellent, practical ... Yet, there are so many spelling errors or word substitution errors that spell check would not identify, that it is extremely hard to ignore them and focus on the content.

I feel badly for Ms. Estess ... As ... whoever proofread her material ... really let her down.