How can we protect her?
Our daughter and her boyfriend have decided to move in together, but some thorny issues regarding money have come up, and guidance would be helpful. Firstly, neither have lived outside their parents’ homes before, and have limited financial knowledge in terms of the realistic costs of running a household. Secondly, she is in a fairly low-paying job at present, while he earns about three times her salary in a trade position.
This is obviously not our daughter’s situation, so our question is this: When earnings are so disparate, what is a fair way to calculate each person’s financial load so that she isn’t left struggling, and he doesn’t grow resentful about having to pay “more”?This is really an issue that has to be worked out between your daughter and her boyfriend, because even in a roommate situation, people have different ways of dealing with income disparities and there are no right answers.
I don’t live in my hometown anymore, so she has been great at taking care of things and wrapping up his estate and possessions . She also cared for him while he was alive and up to his death, and she was amazing during that ordeal.She recently sent me a text that she was closing his final bank account , and that I owed her $9,000, because he gave me more than her while he was alive. I was really taken aback by that. It’s the first time we’ve discussed that.
So legally, she is obligated to give you half of that $12,000, and you can take her to court to get it if you want. But if you’d prefer to avoid the conflict, that’s understandable too. Is it worth letting her have the money just to avoid an all-out war over this, which it sounds like your sister is prepared to wage? That’s a personal decision you have to make, but she is absolutely wrong about what you owe her.
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