Money Box Live: Love and Money
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking all things love and money and what co-habiting, marriage and divorce mean for your finances.
Do you split the bills evenly or have a complicated spreadsheet to work out who pays what?
It comes as recent research published by the University of Bristol revealed 100,000 couples divorce in England and Wales every year - but only a third of them use the legal system to sort out their finances - the majority negotiate their own arrangements or in the worst cases, reach no settlement at all.
So, Felicity Hannah will cover everything from how to have those tricky money conversations with each other to how couples split their finances.
This week to answer your questions and comments, we're joined by Laura Suter, Head of Personal Finance at AJ Bell and Nigel Shepherd, specialist family lawyer and consultant with Mills & Reeve.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producers: Sarah Rogers Editor: Dan Whitworth
(This episode was first broadcast on Wednesday the 8th of November).
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
| 0:21.7 | Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. This is |
| 0:27.8 | the Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, welcome to the Moneybox Live podcast with me, Felicity Hannah. |
| 0:39.3 | On this week's program, we're talking all things. |
| 0:42.3 | Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, love and money, actually, but we couldn't redo the song. And we'll be |
| 0:56.9 | asking what love without marriage means for your finances. Yes, today is about all things financial |
| 1:02.7 | and romantic. Two words that don't often go together. We're going to cover everything from |
| 1:07.7 | how to have those tricky money conversations with each other to how |
| 1:11.9 | couples split their finances. But before those big questions of managing your money as a couple |
| 1:17.2 | come up, the far thornyer issue of managing your money on a date does. So what's best? Do you |
| 1:23.3 | divide the bill equally or impress a date by scooping it up before they see. |
| 1:28.1 | Well, I spoke to William Hansen about exactly that. |
| 1:30.8 | He's an etiquette coach and presenter of the podcast, Help I Sexted My Boss, |
| 1:35.0 | which sounds far more complicated than anything we're talking about. |
| 1:38.7 | So splitting the bill, what are the rules? |
| 1:41.4 | I think it's just 50-50 or divided by the number of people that are there, |
| 1:45.7 | obviously on a date, probably just the two of you, but you never know, modern times. But I think |
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