Hey, I'm Sean a Compton Game.

This is Millennial Money, and today we're talking saying I do with student loans.

Millennial Money with Shawana compton game it will expand your brain i think the appropriate question these days is who doesn't have student loan debt, right?

If you're in your 20s and your early 30s, it is quite conceivable that the majority of you listening to this podcast do you have some sort of student loan debt, varying to degrees, of course, and depending on what school you went to,

and maybe, you know, whether it was undergrad or a master's degree debt, but, I mean,

it's just so expensive to get any type of degree, even if you're just going to an online school

these days, you know, it can be just as expensive as a private college. And, you know, those loans, obviously,

if you have them and you're paying them off, they have a real impact on your life. They really can inhibit

you, you know, trying to reach all of these amazing goals that you want to reach. But, you know,

there's a lot of questions about what happens when you get married?

You know, does that or does that not affect your student loan? Well, in the past, there used to only

be a couple of different payment methods for your student loan, right? And when I graduated

from my master's degree, that was the case. There was only a few options to choose from.

And so when I got married, I wasn't really thinking, okay, how would this actually affect my student loan?

It was just pretty much my student loan was my student loan. I made the payment. And I made the payments until the student loan was paid off, right?

And one thing I did definitely learn about your student loans is when you're going through divorce, your student loan was paid off, right? And one thing I did definitely learn about

your student loans is when you're going through divorce, your student loan is your debt in your debt

only, right? So if you're married and let's say you've combined different credit cards or

different loans, different types of debts that you have, you know, usually in a divorce, those are somehow

split up between the two parties. Either, you know, you do a 50-50 split or maybe you take more,

maybe you tech less. It just depends on, again, kind of where you live and what the debt is

and who's working. I mean, there's so many different factors, but the point is

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