“It’s almost as if, ‘If we don’t talk about it, it won’t happen.” This comment from Rick appears in a recent Market Watch article by Andrea Coombes titled “Don’t leave your spouse in the money lurch.”
For most couples, it’s a fact of life that one spouse will outlive the other. Yet many couples still have great difficulty discussing this issue with their financial planners. The Market Watch story includes some valuable information; you can read the entire article here.