From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!heliotis
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: marriage & money
Article-I.D.: rocheste.243
Posted: Wed Nov 17 09:15:39 1982
Received: Thu Nov 18 02:09:07 1982
References: ihnss.670

Theere is another reason to have three accounts.  If your spouse dies, joint
accounts are frozen by the banks as soon as they get wind of the death.  If
you have your own account, you can quickly transfer all your 'joint money'
there before the obituaries come out (or however they know).  My mother did
this when my father became critically ill in the hospital.  He did not pull
through (what a topic for net.singles), but my mother was able to pull through
because of what she did.

I wonder if people will object to newlyweds considering "divorce by death" as
something to  plan for?