I find most important to find a spouse whom can connect to you in terms of financial planning and agree to combined cash flow.
I see couples married but due to lack of trust they maintain a separate account
What happened to two former colleagues. It is REAL.
One had joint account and one day found out his wife cleaned out ALL the money.
He later had a divorce.
Another worked in Ozzie land and one day found his wife lost a fortune in shares trading. It wiped him out financially.
Some people have actually advised to have separate accounts.
Some use divorce proceedings to claim a share of your father's company (good try).
For a shipping company that means a share of may be Sing$500Million or more. That's how greedy they can be. . An excerpt from SGForums post by Stevenson101:
"A former tour guide, Madam Shi wed Mr Koh Pee Huat, son of shipping tycoon Koh Nai Tor, in 1990 in Beijing.
After 1 1/2 years, she filed for divorce, claiming a share of their home, shares in the Kohs' company, and maintenance of $4,133 a month.
COURT BATTLES
MR KOH Pee Huat married Madam Shi Fang in 1990. About three years later, she obtained a divorce from him on the grounds of desertion.
The High Court ordered Mr Koh to pay her a monthly maintenance of $2,300 and a lump sum of $46,700.
But
she asked the court to increase her maintenance to more than $4,000 and order that she receive a half-share of their Jalan Pelepah home in Pasir Panjang and a share in the family business.
She lost the appeal.
In 1995, she took Mr Koh to court for fabricating false evidence in his affidavits, in their disputes over maintenance. He was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail for falsifying evidence. This was reduced to one month after he appealed.
But she did not get more maintenance from him. Instead,
she was granted a settlement of $250,000 once she vacated the Jalan Pelepah house and withdrew all claims to it. She appealed for more but lost the case in 1996.
In 1998, she was back in court. This time, she was tried for allegedly making a false declaration in her divorce affidavit against Mr Koh. She was acquitted.
The court awarded her much less. She lost her appeal."
You know the joke about some PRC gals (not all of them are like that). Once they land in Sing, the first thing want to know is what are their rights under the Womens' Charter and how much they will get upon a divorce (they don't have this legal entitlement in PRC courts). So they got it all mapped out in a SOP before Sing guys even get to know them.