The following is a guest post by Susie Bafico, Assistant Editor of FiLife, a network of experts and community members, where people get help, advice and share opinions on family finance.

Plenty of parents help out their adult kids with cash, and it’s not just cars and trust funds. For many, the safety net is pulled on the way to college, while for others it never really ends. [...]

I’m getting married one week from today! I can hardly believe how quickly the day has crept up on us, but considering my fiancée and I have dated for the majority of the ten years since we met in high school, some might say “it’s about time”. Although at the moment we are consumed by planning the final details of our big day and ensuing honeymoon, we do take a moment here and there to talk about how this big step will change our lives after all the celebrations have passed. Of course, finances are no exception. But guess what? We don’t expect our finances to change much, if at all, after marriage. How so? [...]

Today marks an exciting milestone for me and Money Under 30: This is my 500th blog post! To celebrate, I’m going to give one lucky reader $100. To learn how to win, just keep reading. [...]

Have you ever been afraid to open a credit card bill, check your bank account balances, or sit down and create a monthly budget? You are not alone. I regularly talk to friends and readers who admit they are afraid of dealing with their personal finances. Even if your finances are sound, living in fear of your personal finances could come back to really haunt you in a number of ways. [...]

For regular readers, my love of the following five financial products won’t come as a surprise, but I realized that I have never written a single post about the handful of financial products that I love… and why I love them. The fact is, the following five products are not only highly valuable, four out of five of them are free, and all (I believe) are especially useful to us twentysomethings. [...]

Where do you want to be in five years? Debt free? Living in your own home? Enjoying a “mini-retirement” volunteering or traveling around the world? I’ve written a lot about making spending plans (i.e., monthly budgets) and debt reduction plans, but these are only part of the key to building financial security. You also need to set long-term financial goals. [...]

Professional poker players often quip: “Don’t throw good money after bad”. At the poker table, you have to know when to stop betting a hand and admit that an opponent has you beat. The same holds true in your financial life. Whatever financial mistakes you made in the past are over. What matters is how you play going forward. [...]

Even as our economy got really hairy this Winter, we avoided repeating the Great Depression in part because Americans didn’t make a run on banks and withdraw cash to hide under the mattress. Keeping all of your liquid assets in cash may not be the smartest move, but that’s not necessarily the case for stashing a small wad of cash in a safe place. [...]

In last week’s list of 15 top financial iPhone apps, I lamented the absence of a Quicken Online application. Just one week later, my prayers have been answered. Last Thursday, Intuit released an iPhone app version of the free Quicken Online budgeting tool. [...]

First, it was the cell phone. Next came the camera-phone. Now, there’s the iPhone. Next up: the “wallet-phone”? (Actually, being able to pay with your phone is probably not that far off). Until then, there are already hundreds of financial apps for the iPhone that make tracking and managing your personal finances on the go as easy as texting. Want to enlist your iPhone to help you get richer? Here are 15 16 (we added one) of the best personal finance iPhone apps. [...]