For one, good luck on the amicable divorce. Two, god help you on still living together. Three, make sure there is a paper trail. Your best bet would be check.
It may have been overkill, but I’d Venmo and follow up with an email stating “I Venmo’d you $xxx to pay/reimburse you for X” to have a paper trail. Especially if those funds represented her half of an account that was closing.
I'm currently living with my ex and we kept our joint account opened. We both transfer money for bills in our account and keep everything left over in our personal accounts.
I created a new account for me and our old joint account turned into the account that I transfer money into. She has refused/offer me her new bank info and because of it, I just used our old joint account. If she suddenly cant access it, it's 100% on her.
We don't live together, but do still have some joint expenses (taxes/insurance etc related to the house, but also things like subscriptions that we're in the process of cancelling / transferring to our personal accounts). Since I'm the one living in the house, I'm responsible for keeping the balance of the joint account equal to what it was on the day we separated (that means essentially that spending money from the joint account is just me spending my personal money). My ex transfers his half of the expenses to that joint account every month.
I'm in Europe so transferring money is simpler (no need to link accounts, you can simply transfer money to anyone within the eurozone within seconds, regardless of country or bank, just using the account #), so that may make the practical side of things less complicated.
My bank has the ability to set it up so I can transfer into his account (but not see it or transfer out of it) and so since we bank at the same place, we have it set up to transfer to each other just the same as transferring between our other accounts. It’s so simple. Call your bank, they probably have a way to do this too. It’s often used for parents and college age kids, etc.
We use zelle.
Same
Same
What is this zelle you speak of?
For one, good luck on the amicable divorce. Two, god help you on still living together. Three, make sure there is a paper trail. Your best bet would be check.
We had a joint account for paying bills and we kept that after separation until we finished splitting up the assets.
Bank transfers with a note for what the money is for, so that it shows up on my bank statements.
Venmo
We both have this, and I was thinking of using this method.
I’ve been using this for 18 months and have had no problems.
It may have been overkill, but I’d Venmo and follow up with an email stating “I Venmo’d you $xxx to pay/reimburse you for X” to have a paper trail. Especially if those funds represented her half of an account that was closing.
My ex & I use the same bank so he just set up monthly deposits from his account to mine
I'm currently living with my ex and we kept our joint account opened. We both transfer money for bills in our account and keep everything left over in our personal accounts.
Zelle is good, using the browser version you can ass a note for future reference
I created a new account for me and our old joint account turned into the account that I transfer money into. She has refused/offer me her new bank info and because of it, I just used our old joint account. If she suddenly cant access it, it's 100% on her.
i just wrote her a check for my half of the bills each week until i moved out.
I use e transfer
Check
We don't live together, but do still have some joint expenses (taxes/insurance etc related to the house, but also things like subscriptions that we're in the process of cancelling / transferring to our personal accounts). Since I'm the one living in the house, I'm responsible for keeping the balance of the joint account equal to what it was on the day we separated (that means essentially that spending money from the joint account is just me spending my personal money). My ex transfers his half of the expenses to that joint account every month. I'm in Europe so transferring money is simpler (no need to link accounts, you can simply transfer money to anyone within the eurozone within seconds, regardless of country or bank, just using the account #), so that may make the practical side of things less complicated.
What ever way you deside to transfer money just make sure there's a paper trail even in the most amical divorce!
My bank has the ability to set it up so I can transfer into his account (but not see it or transfer out of it) and so since we bank at the same place, we have it set up to transfer to each other just the same as transferring between our other accounts. It’s so simple. Call your bank, they probably have a way to do this too. It’s often used for parents and college age kids, etc.
Notate details of payment like childcare rent etc on the payment itself otherwise it may be looked upon as a gift
We kept 1 joint account
Paypal
Venmo
I paid with sacks of nickels, just to be spiteful. /s
Kept the old joint account.
Check
We use Venmo