Assante Financial Management: Certified Financial Planner

Shannon Fostka Dept: While it's easy to get swept up in the romance of a wedding, marriage is also a contract that comes with weighty financial decisions: will you take on each other's debts and assets? Are you going to merge all your money or keep some separate? And how are you going to divvy up bill payments and other responsibilities?, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Not to sound unromantic, but this is kind of like a business contract because when you come into it you want to discuss all your goals and intentions," says Alim Dhanji, a certified financial planner at Assante Financial Management and tORONTO - Bride-to-be Shannon Fostka's wedding plans don't include a fairy tale dress or lavish reception she's done it before and this time around she's pledged to start married life on sound financial footing. These are the type of questions you need to ask one another before walking down the aisle. Canada's divorce rate is 41 per cent and money is one of the big things couples fight about. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.