re: Married folks: bank accounts and bill paying question

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What do you want, a merger, a joint venture, or an equity stake? And is she to be held-to-maturity or held-for-trading? Available for sale?

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9.5/10.
To everyone else freaking out about separate accounts:
You can have joint money without joint accounts. It just makes it easier to not have overdrafts. There is no need to split the tab, because it is shared money.

Figure out a bill sharing system that works and run with it. The best I have heard is my friend and his wife rash automatically contribute to their account that pays monthly bills. Each keeps a few thousand in checking, and the one with more cash pays anything they need to from their. That does not mean that if one were to be running low, they would tell one another to go pound sand.