Lose your inheritance with the flip of a coin…
Flip a coin. Fifty percent chance you will flip “heads.” Fifty percent chance you will flip “tails.”
There is the same probability that one half of your financial legacy to your children and grandchildren will be lost.
How?
Divorce.
It’s one of the four wealth predators.
According to the American Psychology Association, between 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.
Divorce happens. Sometimes for weird reasons.
After 17 years of marriage, this woman called her husband only to discover that he left his phone at home. As she glanced at the screen, she saw that her husband had named her “Guantanamo” after the notorious American prison.
The wife, completely livid, filed for divorce stating that the nickname proves her husband is a tyrant that she can no longer be married to.
The husband, however, said that the name wasn't about how he thought of her; it was a way to maintain his privacy. He didn't want others to know he was talking to his wife.
A bitter divorce.
How would you feel if you left money to your grandson, only for him to lose half of it in a bitter divorce?
It happens more than you realize.
Be sure your legacy is protected from loss due to divorce.
And the other four Wealth Predators.
Retire Abundantly Quote
"When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you."
- Gene Perret
