Is it Right to Stash Money from Your SO?

[Jynuine]

So, there are many women who get an allowance from their working husbands. Once and a while, you put a little aside and then you can really spend something nice on yourself- or, someone else.

It can be really tough to save up money to much of anything nice as a present without your significant other finding out. So much for surprises!

But there is this case of a woman who did just that- stashed enough money to save up $800,000 in her own account. She apparently, is a Long Island dentist and she is suing Chase bank to recover the more than $150,000 that she says she had to share with her hubby after a bank employee let it slip that she had a huge account balance he didn't know about.

"Nazita Aminpour, 43, and her husband, David Shamash, 47, have a joint account at a Chase branch in Kew Gardens, Queens, along with a custodial one for their three children. But Aminpour also had a secret stash of $800,000 at the branch in her name only, according to a suit filed last week in Queens Supreme Court.

A bank employee trying to be helpful spilled the beans to Shamash by cold-calling him and telling him he should take his small fortune out of the low-interest account and make other investments with Chase, the suit alleges.

Shamash said he knew nothing about the money.

"Shamash then began harassing [Aminpour], asking for money from the funds that he can invest in the stock market and to cover a margin call he had on his stock account," the wife's suit says.

She says the bank placed her in a "situation of duress."

She also claims in the suit that the bank violated federal privacy laws that "prohibit the disclosure of non-public, personal information."

So what do you think? Was it wrong for the bank to do this or is she' getting what she deserves'?

[Ashleigh_17]

Apr. 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM

Hmm.. I dont see why she should be punished. I would understand the fighting it might cause between them. And it makes me wonder why she would do this. But. I dont think theres anyting wrong with it.

[Jynuine]

May. 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM

Yeah, who knows? There are so many reasons though why wives have a little stash.... I definitely think that bank was WRONG in disclosing private information not relating to him.

(Original Poster)