Avril Nunez

The World

Joined lives, separate finances: more couples keep money apart

More and more couples are trying to avoid those money fights by keeping their finances separate. In a 2009 survey by PayPal, 57 percent of couples said they kept all or some of their money apart, up from 48 percent in 2008.

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