The Impact of Marriage and Family on Financial Planning

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Marriage and family can affect the way people plan for their financial futures. These plans will have to include such things as combining income, sharing expenses, and buying insurance, estate planning, tax considerations and charging of child education costs. People in marriage must be open in communication and jointly decide on how much they are going to spend for their budgeting efforts, saving money as well as investments. In addition to this, families must think about housing, utilities like power bills, buying food stuffs not forgetting insurances. They must revisit coverage policies of insurance; draw up wills and trusts; find ways of minimizing tax dues besides covering children’s educational spending requirements. Thusly, marriage and family life bring about other factors that affect short term goals as well as long term ones.

Retirement planning is one important issue that is affected by marriage and family life. Similarly emergency savings may be affected by family life issues such as children’s education among others which displace the retiree from his or her position so that he cannot save enough money for emergencies before retirement age approaches to him. Couples should plan for their retirement together with saving money for emergencies that may come up uninvited among other things like discussing financial goals so as to avoid future complications leading them into some misunderstandings brought about by money matters between them hence the necessity of frank communication between two partners concerning finance. Hence spouses need to embrace cooperation when handling financial issues in order to secure a better future together.
 
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