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Don’t let money ruin your relationship. Whether you are preparing for your wedding day, looking to start a family, or staring at an ugly divorce, get advice on how to proceed without drying up your bank account.



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How to Save on Flowers for Your Wedding Print E-mail

Planning and coordinating a wedding can be particularly nerve-racking and costly. Wedding expenses can easily pile up, with the average wedding costing around $15,000-$25,000. However, a wedding does not have to be luxurious and costly to be an amazing event. To cut cost you have to look at every area of spending, such as the considerable cost of wedding flowers, and think of alternate ways to lower your wedding expenses.

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How to Choose an Affordable Caterer Print E-mail

Everyone knows that weddings can be very expensive, and many couples fear catering costs above many other wedding expenses. Affordable wedding caterers can be hard to come by, but trying to cut corners is a necessity in order to save as much money for your wedding as possible. Therefore, you have to look at every spending category for your wedding to cut back, including the catering for your wedding.

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How Divorce Affects Health Insurance Print E-mail

Health insurance is on the forefront of everyone's minds, and everyone has to obtain health insurance one way or another. But what happens if your insurance coverage comes from your spouse, and you're about to divorce? Most married couples have health insurance coverage through one spouse's health plan. Once the marriage is over, so oftentimes is the health insurance coverage for one of the spouses. Fortunately, federal laws exist to protect the rights of the uninsured spouse.

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Money Talks: Key Step to Discussing Money Effectively Print E-mail

Many married couples wait until they have been "found out" before discussing their financial activity with their spouse. In doing so, money talks can become an uncomfortable or confrontational conversation that can put stress on a marriage and the relationship. Regularly following these six steps can smooth out the wrinkles in your communication and put the focus back on your financial well-being.

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Financial Survival for Divorce Print E-mail

Divorce can be a financial disaster, so financial survival following a marital split or break-up can be difficult and requires an effective divorce strategy. While most couples usually break up or end their marriage for personal reasons, the arguments quickly escalate to alimony and division of marital and retirement assets. And the more acrimonious the divorce, the more expensive and financially debilitating the process is. So the only people who actually "win" during a

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Pay for Your Wedding and Still Have a Marriage Print E-mail

Marriage is precious. Debt is not. That's why it's important to have a budget for your wedding and stick to it to prevent yourself from going into debt. It kills me when I hear of people that have struggled financially forever, and now that they are getting married they seem to have millions to spend and unlimited finances. Paying for an expensive wedding and dealing with the debt afterwards is not the gift you want to give each other before marriage. Wouldn't being married debt free be a nicer post-wedding scenario?

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Money Management for Couples Print E-mail

Many couples find themselves in need of financial help. Money problems between couples can cause arguments and lead to separation or divorce. I've been married 15 years. One thing I know for sure, in marriage there has to be communication, unity, and like-mindedness when it comes to money and money management.

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Handling Debts after a Divorce Print E-mail

A marital split is hard enough without having to worry about handling debts after a divorce. But if debts aren't properly managed, without a divorce strategy in place, the situation can snowball into a major financial disaster for both spouses involved in the divorce. This article will give you some debt management strategies so as to avoid financial disaster following a marital split.

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