Puyallup Family Law Blog

With a significant active military and veteran presence in Puyallup, surrounding areas and across Washington, it makes sense that many of our regular readers have extensive knowledge of our nation’s defense history. Even the most knowledgeable military scholars might be surprised, however, to learn that since 2000, more Americans have been killed in motor vehicle crashes than all of the Americans who died in World War I and World War II combined.

The numbers are jarring: 535,000 members of the U.S. military died in the world wars, while more than 624,000 people died in car crashes. Another 30 million injuries were sustained in those wrecks since 2000.

Commingling everything has long been the American model of marriage. When a couple gets married, they share a house, cars, and bank accounts. The complete commingling model is often done for practical reasons as well as symbolic ones.

But part of that model may be changing. Millennials are increasingly choosing not to share bank accounts after marriage. According to a national survey, 28 percent of married millennials have chosen to keep separate bank accounts after tying the knot. One of the reasons for this trend is that many millennials were children or divorce. As such, they want to maintain some financial independence in case their marriages also end in divorce.