Welcome to the forum Tech 1982.

If there was a genuine change in your circumstances then your payment will be reviewed. So, if you previously lived alone and paid all the household bills, then lived together and shared the bills, you might expect your payment to go up because your expenditure had reduced.

A trust deed doesn't stop you going on holiday.

Where you need to be thoughtful is significant sums of money coming into your possession. That might be seen as a windfall that's due to your trust deed.

Hi Tech 1982 and welcome to the forum.

Your Trust Deed should not impact on your partner.

In terms of your monthly payments, like TDA has advised if you were running your own household and now you split the bills you will have more of a surplus left over and in turn your Trustee could look for a fair increase in your payments. This is something which you will need to discuss with your Trustee.

Holidays are allowed in a Trust Deed. I think the barrier could be affording this on a tight budget but if someone is able to afford a holiday by making best use of their available funds then it isn't a problem.

When it comes to booking the holiday and paying for it, you need to be careful about receiving a large sum of money as this could potentially be ingathered into your Trust Deed. Well your 50% share of this. The safest thing would be for you not to receive the money and for it to be paid directly to the travel agent by the family.

All in all, you may be asked to increase your payments per month but you can get married and you can go on a honeymoon. Hopefully this puts your mind at ease.

Hi Tech1982

That's easily the best topic heading this year!

As mentioned above, any change will probably depend on your existing arrangements. If you maintained all hosehold bills previously and this is likely to change via your partner's contribution to the household, then your Trust Deed contribution is likely to increase.

Third party payments/gifts should have no effect on things, however the forum has certainly taught us to do the belts and braces approach and as mentioned above, the Trustee could have no interest in the funds if these were paid to your partner or if they booked the holiday for you.

Mark

thank you for your advice, this has really helped put my mind at ease and I can look forward to getting married instead of being full of worry that it will have an undue effect on our married life before its began.

My patten and I already lived together when I entered the trust deed therefore my contribution was calculated after deducting my half of the costs to our home, there has been no change to my salary (slight decrease in fact with a change of job) however I am happy I can maintain my contributions as agreed therefore I assume that things should remain unchanged?

Thank you all again

Hi Tech1982,

If you are happy that you can maintain your agreed payment then things should remain as they are and unchanged.

Best of luck over the next couple of months with the final wedding plans and enjoy the honeymoon!