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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my mother passed away after a short illness, my sister in law was way too excited to do research on investments etc related to my brother's inheritance.  It creeped us all out, including my brother.  I've lost both my parents, so I inherited some money.  Had my husband been quick to talk about what to do with "our" money, it would have been very off putting.  Money that comes to you because you have this tremendous loss can have some hard emotions attached to it.  You should be letting your husband tell you what his priorities are, or letting him alone if he's not ready to focus on it. [/quote]

Sigh.  What makes you think I'm not doing that?  Unfortunately though there are many practical things to do when someone dies.  And many decisions to be made.  Much more than I would ever have imagined.  We're all devastated (and this didn't happen yesterday, BTW).  We're evaluating everything in our lives right now (we've had other life changes recently too).  The most pressing things right now aside from finalizing the estate, are probably setting up a will (which we probably should have done before but haven't).  It's made me very concerned about what happens to our children if we die.  What's particularly upsetting is that the one person that we would most want to ask advice of on all this stuff is no longer here.

I wasn't really expecting to find out much new here but my original thought was that I was interested to hear some opinions on pros and cons of paying off the mortgage (which we'll likely talk about more in the next year or so) and the process of working with a financial advisor.  [/quote]

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