{"id":716694,"date":"2026-01-24T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:21:07","slug":"marriage-can-be-great-for-your-finances-but-avoid-these-3-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716694\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage can be great for your finances \u2014 but avoid these 3 mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Jan. 23, 2026 at 1:23\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">From an economist\u2019s perspective, one advantage of marriage is the financial benefits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Marriage allows risk-sharing between partners (i.e., one partner can work more if the other loses their job) and allows couples to take advantage of returns to scale (i.e., it\u2019s cheaper to maintain one household than two separate ones). These benefits are why I find the roughly <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2017\/09\/14\/as-u-s-marriage-rate-hovers-at-50-education-gap-in-marital-status-widens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">30% drop<\/a> in marriage rates over the last 40 years troubling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 23, 2026 at 1:23\u202fp.m. ET From an economist\u2019s perspective, one advantage of marriage is the financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[24866,214235,51,5554,52066,1806,474,4179,6615,202003,8175,214236,388,3391,202005,2548,203078,2499,214237,5494,153446,3653,101563,4678,153447,28415,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-716694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-accounting","9":"tag-accounting-consulting","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-consulting","13":"tag-divorce","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-investing","17":"tag-investing-securities","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-labor-personnel-issues","20":"tag-lifestyle","21":"tag-living","22":"tag-living-lifestyle","23":"tag-marriage","24":"tag-marriage-divorce","25":"tag-personal-finance","26":"tag-personnel-issues","27":"tag-political","28":"tag-political-general-news","29":"tag-retirement-planning","30":"tag-securities","31":"tag-society","32":"tag-society-community","33":"tag-synd","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115947928471106807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}