Hi all, next year I will marry my fiance then move to the USA where we plan to settle. I am from a well-off family and he is from a family which struggled. He is an engineer with a masters degree and a PhD. He is on the lookout for very good job prospects and wants a high salary to produce savings and start a family with me (how sweet!).

He is very responsible with money. Calculates stuff, etc. He spends on comfortable things but I am the bigger spender (buying girly stuff). He also pays for our dates etc but I never asked him to do it.

I have a first degree. My career path is also engineering, can earn good money too, yet less than what my fiance can earn. When we get married I, will be doing a masters degree.

His idea is that we open a shared account for shared expenses and decide how much money needs to be there per month. I should contribute 1/2 of the amount through my salary, as should de. The rest saved for separate savings accounts. Because I am expected to earn less than him, this will enable him to build up more savings, which he wants, because his family have never had, unlike my family. He also realizes that he may have bigger expenses in taking care of his parents due to their small savings, and he doesn't want that to be from our shared money.

I agree with his reasoning. Yet is this plan legal, feasible, realistic? Does anyone have better suggestions for our situation above (guy earns more than girl, guy's family is poor and girl's family is rich, they are about to get married). Can his plan screw one of us over? I have heard that keeping separate accounts after marriage is illegal in USA but maybe that is not true anymore/in all states.