Handling Your Family Finances Solo Could Leave Your Wife Vulnerable
You may think you are doing your spouse a favor by exclusively handling your family’s finances and investments. However, you could be doing her a very significant disservice by not including her, even if she isn’t interested in savings, credit, insurance, and...
15 Questions to Ask Your Husband to Better Understand Your Finances
Many women are perfectly content to leave investment management and family finances to their husbands. The issue: This can leave you extremely vulnerable if your husband becomes incapacitated or passes away. That’s why you may want to ask your husband some key...
Checklist: Key Financial Documents Women Need to Know About
If your husband handles your family’s finances, an unexpected illness, injury, or death could leave you and the people who depend on you vulnerable and at a loss as to what to do next. An important element to reducing this vulnerability is having the right records and...
How Women Can Avoid Common Risks to Their Financial Security
Women who don’t take an interest in how their investments are managed and how their household bills are paid face greater risks to their long-term security, personal autonomy, and legal preparedness than those who do. Why? Women typically outlive men. Unless they have...