Anyone ever split up a family plan?

[jackie011]

ILs have always been on our Verizon plan. It's just been an extra $20/month, which was cheaper than long distance. Our plan is ancient. It's basically the plan I've had since I first had a "emergencies only" cell phone in HS. The minutes have never been an issue because most of the people we call are other verizon customers.

Now that ILs have relocated, they plan to just have cells, no landline. Has anyone dropped lines from their family plan? DH & I would prefer to have the ILs start their own plan. They're fine with whatever. FIL wants to upgrade to an iPhone, anyway, and we'll have to figure out what makes the most sense as far as minutes. Maybe it will make more sense to stay on one plan but finally upgrade the minutes?

Just looking for a little guidance before I waste hours at the damn verizon store tomorrow!!

[alleinesein]

Well I managed to split up my family plan when XH and I got divorced. Took maybe 20 minutes at the AT&T store and was relatively painless. He had to give them all his info and then they transferred his number into a new account.

Doesnt Verizon have that Framily plan thing now? You could look into that and have it set up so that they get their own bill.

[jackie011]

Jul 26, 2014 0:06:11 GMT -5 alleinesein said:

Well I managed to split up my family plan when XH and I got divorced. Took maybe 20 minutes at the AT&T store and was relatively painless. He had to give them all his info and then they transferred his number into a new account.

Doesnt Verizon have that Framily plan thing now? You could look into that and have it set up so that they get their own bill.

That's Sprint. DH doesn't want to switch carriers as he travels to some pretty remote places and almost always has coverage when others do not. DH also has grandfathered unlimited data and we don't really want to lose that.

[sunshineluv]

I dropped my mom off of mine when she got married. She stayed with Verizon so it was no big deal at all. No broken contract fees or anything.

[jax373]

Jul 26, 2014 5:51:13 GMT -5 jackie011 said:

Jul 26, 2014 0:06:11 GMT -5 alleinesein said:

Well I managed to split up my family plan when XH and I got divorced. Took maybe 20 minutes at the AT&T store and was relatively painless. He had to give them all his info and then they transferred his number into a new account.

Doesnt Verizon have that Framily plan thing now? You could look into that and have it set up so that they get their own bill.

That's Sprint. DH doesn't want to switch carriers as he travels to some pretty remote places and almost always has coverage when others do not. DH also has grandfathered unlimited data and we don't really want to lose that.

When you renew your contract with Verizon (when you get a new phone), you will lose the unlimited data. That happened to me, I was mad.

[jax373]

Oh and when my exh and I split, they just moved his number to a new plan and account like others said. Super easy.