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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:22, do you not budget jointly with your spouse? I don't see how the financial downside of this is only a problem for OP's DH -- if he is asked/required to pay for things, that money comes out of OP's pocket as well, assuming she and her DH pool their funds. [/quote]

+1. OP and her DH are a team, as they should be. It is a problem for both.

I think the solution would be to tell in laws that you'd rather have cash or something similar left for you in the will (furniture, jewelry, extra cash). It's not fair to be left a vacation home you don't want.[/quote]

Yikes -- I don't think I would do this. But I would say, "It's nice that you want us all to share the house. We have a lot of happy memories of the place, and if our situation were different, we'd want to. But between the distance and the cost of upkeep and taxes, we would rather just be left out of the transfer."

Then maybe someone else suggests buying you out or leaving you something else. Or maybe you just get less. Or nothing. You're not behind where you would have been in any case. [/quote]

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