Take-home Final: Getting Personal about Personal Finance

In this final exercise, we will consider some of the more personal decisions and issues faced by individuals regarding their finances.  Among the questions we will explore include:

Love and Money

• the cost of raising a child 
• pre-nuptial agreements
• sharing living expenses with a partner
• sharing a checking account with a partner
• sharing credit cards with a partner
• dealing with debt in a relationship

These are hard questions that really go straight to the heart of the matter - after all, it has been the experience of many that money matters can destroy a relationship, if partners are not frank with each other.  It's much better to get things out into the open - and the sooner the better.

If you would like to get another professional's opinion about love and money, please read this article by Suze Orman. You should also take her Financial Compatability Quiz while you're at it.  Truly eye-opening and highly recommended. 

For the actual questions on the take-home final assignment, please click on this link.



I hope that you enjoyed the course, and welcome your feedback, suggestions and/or recommendations.

Thank you,

Richard Wiegand

West Haven Personal Finance teacher