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What Every Woman Should Know
About Her Husband’s Finances
• Suppose som ebody handed you a
stack of h u n d re d dollar ib'ills and said:
“H ere, invesfe this m oney and invest
it wisely. If. is absolutely all you are
going to haye to live on for the re st
of y our life. I h av en ’t tim e to tell you
how. J u s t do th e best you can.”
If you are a wife (and this article
is w ritte n fo r w ivj|g,) that, is not so
m uch of a hypothetical; case as it
m ight appear. It could happen to you.
Y our husband is probably w ork
ing h ard lg lav in g up a little money,
buying life' in su ran c e and thjis creat
ing an estate. (It is an estate w h e S S ||
it is one fib llar . or a m illionjElw l^^M
T h is jO ta tg is for your protection. B ut
m aybe your husband has never got
aro u n d to lettin g you B onaEwB ^ S
tails.
H a s ^ h e 'e v e r explained his in su r
ance program , for exam ple, or why
he bought th a t lot out on the edge of
town, or w hen he plans to sell th at
feiock he owns? No? Then he is prob
ably not giving you all .the protection
he th in k s he is.
A b an k er or a law yer w ill tell you
th a t / n o n ^ does .not take care of it-
fself. Even w ith the best advice, a
w om an handling m oney m ust m ake
some decr ^ ’onW herself. You w ill be
in a m uch b etter position to m ake
those d g js r ons later if ^ p u r h 1 K ||i d
.starts keernng you posted on his fi
nancial affairs rig h t now.
M aybe ‘it is your fa u lt th at your
baffi® and hsB^ r o t w c f f l g this already.
M aybe y ó u g S i
terest. Or perhaps you still have the
old-fashioned idea th a t you are sort
ofyan inferior p a rtn e r and cannot ex-
pect to have your h u sb an d ’s full con
fidence. If so, y o u should get over it.
If vourgnusbandffi try in g I to accum u
late an estate to protect his fam ily,
and m ost husbands areWEmph h e/w ill
w elcom e your in tere st and p a rtic ip a
tion.
How m uch should you know about
your h u sband’s financial affairs? The
m ore the better. You should be fairly
fa m iliar w ith each of the follov ing
subjects.
W O T t e Y our H usband’s A dvisers ?
F iS ,- k n p ^ J K e nam e of his law yer.
No estate can be settled satisfactorily
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