{"id":451042,"date":"2026-02-03T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:20:12","slug":"structuring-financial-contributions-and-avoiding-family-tension-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451042\/","title":{"rendered":"Structuring financial contributions and avoiding family tension, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ms Wise, our daughter is getting married, and we want to help the couple buy their first home. His parents also want to make a contribution. We can give $200,000, they can give $50,000. How do we structure this, and will the differing amounts cause tension? Joanna <\/p>\n<p>A: Unequal parental contributions are common and not legally problematic, says MaryAnn de Mestre, principal at M de Mestre Lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Ms Wise, our daughter is getting married, and we want to help the couple buy their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-451042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}