[Alexandra]

I am just wondering if people include their partner's assets when they are calculating their net worth? My husband and I have separate RRSPs and savings accounts, but a shared home (with a mortgage), a shared rental property (also with a mortgage), and an RESP account for our daughter, in addition to lots of other shared assets.

To calculate my net worth, I have always just split the shared assets in half (and any liabilities). Is this what other people are doing? Or do you count your net worth as yours AND your partners net worth?

 

[Alexandra]

Thanks. It's nice because jointly, it sounds like we have so much more.

I have a feeling from what others tell me, that if divorce ever came into play, you'd actually end up with less than half - the lawyers need to take their cut too ;-).