He Started A Savings Account For His Daughter That’s Over $8,000, But His Ex-Wife Thinks She’s Entitled To Half
When you were young, did your parents ever set aside the money you received as presents on special occasions and deposit it into a savings account for safekeeping?
Many people opt to open these accounts for their kids to get them started early, and this man is no different. He’s currently divorced and has a daughter with his ex-wife.
“And my family has always been good about sending gifts and money for birthdays and Christmas,” he said.
So, he opened up a joint savings account with his daughter, where he stores all her funds. This year, she made out especially great, too, since she received over $1,400 for her birthday alone.
He deposited all of that money into the account, as he had been since he opened it over three years ago.
“Which just so coincides around the time of my divorce,” he noted.
However, his ex-wife was never informed about the savings account, and when she recently found out about it, she was livid.
The beans were spilled this past weekend when his daughter told her mother about all the money she had stashed away. According to him, his daughter was just so proud of herself.
Well, his ex-wife didn’t view his daughter’s savings as a positive thing. Instead, she was furious and actually accused him of stealing money from her!
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“Her logic is that since we ‘share’ custody of my daughter, she deserves half of my daughter’s gift money,” he revealed.
So now, his ex-wife is demanding that he hand over half of the cash from his daughter’s savings account.
He was taken aback and asked his ex-wife about all the money her side of the family gifted his daughter and where those funds were. Ironically, she claimed it was none of his business.
Anyway, he doesn’t think his wife is entitled to half of his daughter’s savings, which is now totaled at over $8,000, because she received it all from birthdays, Christmas, and other special occasions.
‘And the ex-wife wants half of that, and I doubt she will put it in a savings account for my kid,” he vented.
Still, with his ex giving him so much pushback over this, he’s not sure if refusing to split the savings really is wrong.
Do you agree with his ex-wife, or should he hold on to all the cash for his daughter?
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