What is the best system for marital finances?

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Last	Type	Created	Category	Creator	Sort	Votes	Hides	Rating
Last	single	31-Jul-2008	sex/relationships	Zang	by votes	38	5	60.0%

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What is the best system for marital finances?

This could also apply to common-law relationships. Feel free to use your own experience, how your parents did it, how you've seen others do it etc.

This assumes that both parties are providing income.

Total Votes	% of Voters	Female Votes	Male Votes	% of Female Votes	% of Male Votes	Average Age	Answer
2	5.3%	1	1	5.6%	7.7%	..	All finances held in common.
21	55.3%	13	8	72.2%	61.5%	36.7	A mixture of separate and combined finances.
3	7.9%	1	2	5.6%	15.4%	49.0	Finances kept strictly separate.
..	..	..	..	..	..	..	One person holds all.
5	13.2%	3	2	16.7%	15.4%	35.1	Other

Ratings
Rating Total Female Male Average Age
Good 7 5 2 38.5
Bad 0 0 0 N/A
No Opinion 28 15 13 39.2
Type Number
Abstainers 7
Male 13
Female 18

Qualifiers:
User Vote Comment
paulyw reasonable
posted 1-Aug-2008 8:40am

LJD reasonable
posted 1-Aug-2008 8:31am

LJD old
posted 1-Aug-2008 8:31am

dab reasonable
posted 1-Aug-2008 7:29am

Strider reasonable
posted 1-Aug-2008 12:04am

Melf reasonable
posted 31-Jul-2008 6:35pm

Matty reasonable
posted 31-Jul-2008 11:16am

moviesnob reasonable
posted 31-Jul-2008 11:05am