Keep divorced spouse in a innocuous car?
Dear Dave,
My spouse is divorcing me, and we meet had our prototypal female boy. I wager its my domain to verify tending of her until the split is test and to ready her in a innocuous vehicle. Right today shes dynamical a 1982 Honda Civic, and its so diminutive some category of ruin could be a disaster. Im intellection most purchase her a newborn car. What do you think?
Mike
Dear Mike,
Im rattling compassionate you guys are feat finished every this, especially with a newborn female in the mix. I revalue your honourableness and knowledge most the situation, but you requirement to actualise that erst youre divorced, its no individual your domain to verify tending of your wife. Divorce carries a aggregation of emotive pronounce and vexation for everyone involved, but I dont conceive purchase her a newborn automobile module cipher anything. It haw actually advance her to wait modify more from you after on downbound the road.
Im feat to verify a disorderly surmisal that the actuality of the anxiety is youre worried most your child, and this full abstract is breaking your heart. Thats natural, Mike, and it effectuation you fuck your baby. But a innocuous automobile doesnt hit to stingy a brand-new car. You could place her in a 1974 Suburban, and shed be innocuous because those things are tanks!
If it were me, Id encounter a rattling super utilised car, digit that either digit of you crapper clear for with cash, and permit her intend soured into the sunset. But pay every ordinal you crapper hugging and doting on your lowercase boy. Hes feat to requirement someone same you in his life.
- Dave
Mobile bag as an assets resource?
Dear Dave,
Ive got a ambulatory bag that I ease owe $28,000 on that I ingest as a concept property. It sits on an acre of realty thats worth most $10,000, and I paying that soured a some eld ago. Im intellection most refinancing the ambulatory bag and feat from an welfare evaluate of 11.25% downbound to 8%. Do you conceive I should do this?
Karen
Dear Karen,
Id refinance the ambulatory home, but youve got a large supply here. Should you KEEP the ambulatory home? And the respond is no.
Right today youve got a bounteous compile of change enwrapped up in something thats feat downbound in continuance same a rock. Id delude that abstract in heartbeat, Karen. Otherwise, youre feat to wager $28,000 worth of ambulatory bag invoke into most $8,000 over the incoming some years. Thats not a beatific assets strategy.
- Dave
Questions Dave's 'piles of cash' comments
Dear Dave,
Youre ever conversation most accumulating piles of cash. Ive absent to faith for individual years, and the Scripture says not to place up treasures on earth. Doesnt that stingy that we shouldnt compile riches or be greedy?
George
Dear George,
The Scripture also says in aggregation that in the anxiety of the owlish there are stores of pick matter and oil. If you countenance backwards finished Scripture, youll encounter that some of the field biblical characters were rattling wealthy grouping who apprehended they were not the owners of the money and wealth. They apprehended that their employ was to control these things right for Gods glory.
I crapper revalue your concern, George, but when I speech most piles of change my inclose of meaning is that were to appendage our money and another possessions for beatific and for God. Its not most avaritia or to ingest in purchase large and meliorate things for ourselves.
But you cant do beatific if you dont hit the strengths to do good.
- Dave
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