It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

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You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

This next question is from Aaron.

Now, Aaron said, my wife and I received a $25,000 inheritance.

It was from her side of the family, so she feels more ownership of it.

I want to invest some of it.

She wants to pay off our 2.8% mortgage and remodel our home.

How do I navigate investing over spending it on our home?

There's a lot packaged up in this question, Brian.

How do we think about assets that come in from inheritance?

What should we think about and how should we navigate those assets and then even how do

you make the decision on using those for the future, versus using those for the present?

I like questions like this, Aaron, because I have a visual of you and your wife watching

this answer.

We're going to let these guys decide.

Use this as a tool to hopefully mediate your discussion.

First of all, I think it's very important, and this is something I would do this in my

household, and I hope you would consider it with yours, is that there's a legal protection

to inherited assets.

My wife came into an inheritance of $25,000.

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