Physician Family Financial Advisors Blog

"Are we saving enough?" You've asked your spouse some version of that question, probably more than once, and probably without landing on an answer eit...

You already know what the number is. Two kids in full-time center care, or one infant plus an after-school program, and the monthly childcare bill sit...

You've run this in your head more than once. You'd work four days instead of five. You'd take a Wednesday at home, or a Friday, or whatever day your g...

The email shows up in your work inbox sometime in the fall. Open enrollment is here, the window is about three weeks, and there's a link to a portal y...

The private school tuition bill arrives on a schedule that has nothing to do with your call schedule. If your kids are in private school, you already ...

Here's a question that comes up at physician dinner tables: "How much do we actually have?" Sometimes the person asking is the spouse who doesn't hand...

You're four or five months out, or your spouse is, and the questions surfacing at ten at night have nothing to do with the nursery. How many weeks can...

The call doesn't come with a warning. Your mom mentions she's been having trouble with the stairs. A neighbor says your dad doesn't seem to be opening...

Your signing bonus landed. Or maybe it was the quality bonus, or the year-end productivity payout you've watched accrue since spring. You opened the p...

You out-earn almost everyone you went to high school with. But you can still feel a small jolt in your chest when a $4,000 bill lands with no warning....

You accepted the new position. The offer looked good, the commute is shorter, and the group seems like people you would want to work beside. Then some...

The Question That Shows Up Every March

You and your spouse have filed jointly since the year you got married. Nobody questioned it. Then one of you l...