Making gifts to your spouse can sometimes work well if your estate is
larger than your spouse's, and one or both of you will leave an estate larger than the applicable exclusion amount.
Not exact matches
For
larger families with more
than one generation of siblings and
spouses, the office often acts as the boardroom from which clients direct investing decisions and other financial endeavours such as philanthropy.
Many people opt to co-borrow with a partner or
spouse as this allows them to qualify for a
larger loan
than either one could get on their own.
Advocacy More
than 65 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older parent, a
spouse, a sibling, a special needs child or a friend, serving as the nation's
largest volunteer health care army.
If a
spouse's own earnings history generates a
larger benefit
than what he or she would receive as a survivor benefit based on their deceased
spouse's earnings history, then the higher retired worker benefit is kept in place.
«We've seen a lot of cases where you have two
spouses and both of them will have
large RRSP accounts and throughout retirement one of them passes away earlier
than expected and all the RRSP assets go over to the other
spouse,» he says.
Many people opt to co-borrow with a partner or
spouse as this allows them to qualify for a
larger loan
than either one could get on their own.
A
spouse can help you save the necessary down payment, and your two incomes can get you qualified for a
larger mortgage
than you could get alone.
If a
spouse's own earnings history generates a
larger benefit
than what he or she would receive as a survivor benefit based on their deceased
spouse's earnings history, then the higher retired - worker benefit is kept in place.
We have a
larger savings
than most, and it's precisely because I want to be prepared for illness - my own, my
spouses, or my pet's.
The
spouses cohabited for less
than five years, and under equalization one
spouse would receive a disproportionately
large equalization payment.
e) Where the couple lived together less
than 5 years, the share received by a
spouse would be disproportionately
large;
For example, if you haven't settled with your
spouse because you feel you deserve a
larger than 50 percent share of the marital property and the judge states in the pretrial hearing that he would not rule in your favor, you might not want to spend the time and money on trial because you're probably not going to get what you seek anyway.
Data from a
large - scale study of over 1,100 married, opposite - sex couples in Ireland (more
than 2,200 individuals), in which at least one
spouse was over 60 years of age (average age of participants = 67 years old), was used to investigate loneliness among older adults.
In Beyond The Myth of Marital Happiness, professor of Education and Psychological Studies at the University of Miami Dr. Blaine J. Fowers wrote, «The best marriages are partnerships in which
spouses are devoted to creating a shared life that is
larger than the emotional payoff of marriage.»
If your
spouse had a
larger income and carried health benefits for the family, consider filing for a legal separation rather
than a divorce, at least for the time being.
Rather
than finding themselves locked into positions geared to defend against the experience of overwhelming loss,
spouses find themselves involved in negotiation that is based on both their own underlying interests, needs and desires, and the
larger interests of the family as a whole.