Mature Life Features

Therapist Dr. Candace Raczkowski

will introduce her healing service to us at

1 p.m. in the 2nd floor theater

Her knowledge, experience, training and background

treating and preventing problems with

balance,

post-surgical recuperation,

joint inflation and

a wide-range of chronic conditions

will help most us overcome stiffness and pain.

= = = = =

Married Couples More Wealthy Than Singles

Just like love and marriage, marriage and wealth‑building go hand in hand.

Don’t leap astride your high horse should someone suggest you or a dear friend or relative is marrying for money.

A Purdue University study reveals that marriage has a lot to do with wealth accumulation. Getting and staying married appears to provide institutional benefits that greatly impact long‑term economic well‑being.

A survey of more than 7,000 households that included at least one pre‑retirement person between 51 and 61 years of age indicated that people who never married had only 14 percent of the financial assets that married people accumulated.

Even when divorced individuals and surviving spouses remarried, they still did not make up as much financial ground as partners who were continuously married. The negative effects are greater when a marriage ends in divorce.

Financial potentials that are greater in marriage include home ownership, insurance coverage for spouses, survivor pension benefits, and increased rates of saving. A continuous marriage is more important to acquiring housing equity than other type of assets.

Which leads sponsors of the study to warn married couples pondering divorce to consult with a financial counselor before calling their attorneys.

A financial consultant can help because quickly liquidating jointly held property and establishing two households with the proceeds can be costly to both parties. And spinning off from that is the need to review individually held property before forging a marriage contract, whether it’s the first marriage or the latest in a series. Pre‑nuptial financial agreements should be given as much priority as legally binding romantic bonds.