Marriage and Money by the Numbers

So, we at Community Ladders have been huge proponents of couples openly discussing money issues (witness our previous blogs and newsletters, and the February recruitment drive). We also sometimes work with each partner independently on issues precisely because people are coming from different places. I don’t want to belabor the point, but working with couples is one of the most important things we do at Community Ladders.  It’s also one of the more challenging situations for us as financial planners (working with people who are divorced or getting divorced is – quite tellingly – often easier).

In the spirit of getting couples on the right track, we wanted to pass around this short article and the associated (and frightening) graphic below.