Product Description

Money and Marriage Two: A Narrative Guide to Financial, Estate, and Retirement Planning in a Second Marriage is about law, money, and marriage. Each of us wants love and financial security, but there can be conflicting interests in a second marriage when you have children from the first. Here, you will learn legal and financial ways to support and strengthen your second marriage as you negotiate and make smooth the financial relationship. At the same time, however, you will learn hardball techniques to protect yourself and your children. Many second marriages don't last, and blood is blood. The question you may ask is, "Can I be fair, yet smart?"

With an understanding born of experience, the author shares his answer through a story. The setting is an adult education course taught by two attorneys, one an estate planner, the other a divorce lawyer. The course combines a legal and financial mini-text that can be scanned, read, or studied with a highlighter, with a plot that captures it all with dialogue, character, humor, and romance. The instructors and their six students bring you into the intimacy of their lives as they struggle to achieve both love and financial security.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #765066 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 385 pages

About the Author
Author Jon Fitzpatrick is an attorney with 25 years experience counseling couples in second marriages. He has professional degrees in accounting (CPA), financial planning (CFPâ), insurance (CLU), and law (JD). He and his wife, Roxanne, enjoy seven children between them from their first marriages. They reside in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Customer Reviews

Highly Informative and Interesting
You might not think that a narrative guide to financial, estate, and retirement planning would be an exciting read. Yet, the author Jon Fitzpatrick has managed to make the complex issues surrounding these topics understandable to the average person, and he's done it in a way that is interesting and entertaining as well. He accomplished this by using sets of theoretical couples, each with specific marital and financial circumstances, to illustrate various retirement and financial planning strategies. Reading about the lives of these fictional couples was interesting in and of itself! But the main contribution of this book is the helpful and comprehensible guidance and advice that the average person can take away and implement easily in their own lives.

Because of its readability and helpful guidance, I'd rate this as by far and away the best of many financial planning books I've come across.

Packed with useful advice in an easy-to-read format
This book is a must-have for anyone contemplating or in a second or subsequent marriage...especially if you or your partner have children from previous relationships. Jon Fitzpatrick takes some pretty dry information and makes it accessible to the average reader by writing this non-fiction work in the guise of a novel. You'll be drawn in to the lives of the characters, each working through their own financial and relationship issues as they try to do the right thing by their children, their partners, and themselves. You'll walk away with a lot of useful advice and a gameplan for making changes in your own life.