Money Issues

[MPGGPM 0]

Just curious if those of you still apart have already comingled accounts. I haven't and dont' think I will until he gets here but was curious what everyone else does.

Although my wife and I have been married for nearly 3 years.....we are still apart due to her having to fulfull the 2 year HRR for her j-1 visa (but thank god she's almost done! ) That also means she has a SS# already, as well.

So, we are still apart...but married for quite a while now.

We do have both our names on all of our bank accounts...except one...which is my checking, but since I don't really keep much in that account, I just made her the beneficiary on it. She is also the beneficiary on my brokerage account.....and sole beneficiary on my pension. (Still have a while to go until retirement though

So, yes......in one way or the other......all of our accounts are joined/and/or she's the beneficiary.

The only thing I have not added her to, yet , are my credit cards. For the sole fact that we both agree when she comes here that she gets her own....to build up her credit.

[Autumnchik 6]

We are planning on having a combination of joint and separate bank accounts. Probably not adding him to my current credit card, but getting one together and having him get his own to build credit here.

[Yodrak 7]

shonjaved,

I could. And I did.

Yodrak

not really.

.....

coz you cant add anyone to checking.

[sparkofcreation 0]

Never added him while he was in the UK, we weren't even engaged yet!

We currently have a joint checking account, joint savings account, and each have a personal checking account that the other doesn't have access to. We set aside a certain amount of money for each of us each mont that's ours to do anything we want with, no questions asked. We use it to buy stuff we really want that the other person doesn't (like books, CDs, DVDs, he buys whisky [scotch] with his, etc.) and presents for each other.