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Pre-nuptial credit check

This article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette advises couples to examine each other's credit scores and reports before getting married, as part of a general goal of learning to talk about finances sooner rather than later.

Seems creepy, but the motivation is a good one:

"Unfortunately, we don’t always talk about financial issues. It’s so unromantic," said Sheryl Garrett, a Kansas financial planner and author of Just Give Me The Answer$.

But romance can be quickly extinguished, too, if one partner’s financial troubles spill over onto the other. David Diggs, a family lawyer in Baltimore, said money is the root of 80 percent of the divorces he handles.

Posted by stan on March 30, 2005 at 10:01 AM
Category: Credit reports

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