<prompt> Human: I will be getting married in about a year when my fiancee graduates college. I was thinking we could keep our own checking accounts, and create a new joint account for shared expensessaving. Is this a good Idea? Also, how should we split expenses? 5050 or based off of our incomes?  <response>: Were common-law and we keep everything separate and then contribute proportional to our incomes 6040 split. Well, I pay everything and he reimburses me his portion of the expenses in instalments. 