Family Finance: The Essential Guide for Parents

by Ann Douglas and Elizabeth Lewin

Concentrating on the problems facing new parents, this guide to money management offers advice on handling debt, avoiding credit card trouble, mortgages, car expenses, education, taxes, insurance, savings, and investments. It also discusses the decision to maintain two incomes or rely on one, retire

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079314356X
• ISBN13: 9780793143566
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Response to Unreliable Information

Family Finance was published in 2001. The provisions of The Tax Relief Act of 2001 did not become effective until 2002. Starting in 2002, qualified tuition programs were made federal tax-free through 2010. The book has a lot of excellent advice that is not affected by changes in tax law. The book is meant to be a guide.It is important to note when books were published. There are still many excellent financial books sold that predate changes in tax law. Internet users should also be aware of articles they read on many web sites. Many have been written years ago and never updated. Beware of those that have no date at all.Elizabeth Lewin, Co-author of Family Finance

How to raise money-smart, finance-wise children

In Family Finance, Ann Douglas and Elizabeth Lewin have capably collaborated to offer n essential, practical, "reader friendly" instructional manual on all aspects of managing personal finances. Readers will learn how to keep their spending under control, how to start a fund to secure their family's future; how to plan for a child's educational expenses; how to maximize retirement investments; even how to raise money-smart, finance-wise children. The authors draw upon their own extensive experience and expertise in addition to the input and experiences of fifty parents to show even the most novice financial manager how to take control of their money, their credit, their future plans and their present lives.