{"id":271021,"date":"2026-02-03T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:42:09","slug":"structuring-financial-contributions-and-avoiding-family-tension-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271021\/","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":271022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-271021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}