Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce |  | Author: Emily Doskow Attorney
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Product Description
The most practical-- and legal -- companion through divorce ever published.
Like most people who are going through a separation or divorce, you're probably wondering "What's next?" at every turn.
So turn to Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce for clear answers that can help make your divorce simpler and reduce your expenses. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce will help you:
understand the divorce process
work with mediators or lawyers
avoid expensive and painful court battles
figure out alimony
establish child custody and visitation
determine child support
divide money and property fairly
draft a marital settlement agreement
deal with divorce emergencies
address post-divorce issues, and
find helpful resources.
On every page, this book stresses the importance of minimizing conflict, explains complex legal problems concisely, and provides advice on how to protect your interests. Plus, easy-to-use charts make it simple to find the divorce laws in your state.
The updated 2nd edition has new information for planning your parenting agreement and includes a new chapter on divorce in military families. While plenty of books out there claim to cover divorce thoroughly, only Nolo consistently delivers clear legal expertise and invaluable insights. Trust Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce to help you through every step.
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 Get this book before you hire a lawyer or make any concrete plans for your divorce April 5, 2007
Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
The Nolo Press is a 35-year leader in self-help legal books. Anyone facing a divorce needs to obtain a copy of this reference guide immediately, regardless of whether the divorce will be amicable, grudingly co-operative, or combative. This book will take you through the legal process of divorce as well discussing the social, emotional, and financial processes. It is a thorough guide in plain language and you'll want to keep a highlighter and some post-it flags handy for marking relevant passages.
Nolo recommends mediation before litigation if at all possible, to save money and effort. The authors remind the reader that lawyers do not have the consumer's best interest at heart--their first priority is to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits, and so they will be as thorough (and costly) as possible to meet that need. If both spouses read this book, it can provide an important wake-up call about saving as much money as possible for themselves and their children by pursuing divorce through mediation and co-operation. If your spouse is antagonistic, this book will tell you how to ensure that your best interests are covered when you hire a lawyer, and how to make the legal process work as smoothly as possible.
If you live in California and are fortunate enough to have an uncontested divorce, you can save thousands of dollars in legal fees by using the Nolo book and CD-ROM How to Do Your Own Divorce in California.
Good book for a difficult situation October 4, 2006
Amicable (San Francisco, CA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
While going through a divorce can be difficult, this book shows that there are real, concrete ways to make it less so. The book is well organized. Written in plain English, it's also easy to understand. It offers good tips and links to other valuable resources. The book provides important guidelines for managing finances, preparing and filing legal papers, dividing property and more. The author continually stresses the importance of taking the high road, which helps keep the flame low on a potentially volatile situation. When both parties are in respectful relationship to each other, she writes, it helps ease the process and make for a smoother transition after the divorce, which is especially important when there are children to consider.
Public libraries in particular must have this. December 12, 2006
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Anyone faced with divorce needs to run, not walk, to Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce, an updated legal resource which covers everything from the process and working with mediators and lawyers to how alimony, child support, and division of money and property are calculated. Also learn how to avoid court battles and draft a marital settlement agreement on your own - and learn common post-divorce issues which threaten such arrangements - in a guide written by an attorney-mediator in private practice who surveys everything from religion to property division laws. Public libraries in particular must have this.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Easy to Understand Guide about a Difficult Subject December 30, 2008
Tiffany Ann (Black Diamond Bay)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It goes without saying that when you got married you really meant till death do you part. You'd met your soul mate, you were gonna make a life together and it was going to be heaven on earth. But sometimes people change. Sometimes things don't work out the way you'd thought they were going to. Sometimes people make mistakes. Sometimes stuff happens. Sometimes divorce is the only option.
And if you find that's the case with you, then this book is a good place to see what you've in for, especially if children are involved. However, if children are involved I'd urge you to try extra hard to make your marriage work, but maybe you can't. If that's the case I highly recommend that you get this book and read what Emily Doskow has to say about taking the high road, even if you feel that you are the wronged party, because even though you're divorcing your spouse, you're not divorcing your children.
Ms. Doskow walks you through everything you should do and consider before divorcing, during the proceedings and afterwards, when you've come out on the other end. She does it with compassion in her words and without talking down to you. And, most importantly, she does it in laymen's terms. Lord I hate those books you gotta be a lawyer to understand, that is not the case here. This is a good and useful book about a difficult subject that is easy to understand. It really is an essential guide to divorce.
An Excellent Book on a Difficult Subject December 23, 2008
Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are Sixteen informative chapters in this book and they are:
1. Getting Oriented, which briefly walks you through the various kinds of divorce.
2. First Steps After You Decided to Divorce, which takes you through breaking the news to your spouse, to who's going to live where, to taking care of yourself.
3. When You Can Agree: Uncontested Divorce, which is exactly what you want to do if divorce is your only option.
4. Working it Out: Divorce Mediation, which is the next best thing to an uncontested divorce, if you and your spouse can't do it alone, maybe a mediator can help.
5. When You Can't Agree: Contested Divorce and Trial, which is where you don't want to go, unless you absolutely have to. It's a given that you'll spend a small fortune and probably never be able to speak to your spouse again.
6. Custody Decisions and Parenting, which will take your through the different kinds of child custody.
7. Custody Disputes, which is again something you want to avoid, better to work it out, but if you can't then you'll need this chapter.
8. Child Support, which is something nobody wants to pay, but you made 'em, you gotta pay for 'em. It's the right thing to do.
9. Yours, Mine, and Ours: Basics of Martial Property, which will tell you what gets divided and what does not. If you've got half a brain and half a heart, you can figure this out for yourself, but if you or your spouse does not. You could be in court over this, you don't wanna go there.
10. Yours, Mine, and Uncle Sam's: Dividing Property, which will let you know what you're in for if you can't divvy up your stuff yourself. Someone's gonna do it, do let it be da judge.
11. Spousal Support and Health Insurance, which explains who has to pay and why.
12. Military Divorce, which is pretty self-explanatory.
13. Getting it in Writing: Preparing Your Marital Settlement Agreement, which includes your parenting agreement if you have children.
14. Critical Care: When Things Really Go Wrong, which includes domestic violence, child abuse, kidnapping and bankruptcy. Dude, if you've done the first three you're despicable and if you're a victim of the first three, get out of the relationship, then get even.
15. After the Divorce, which basically gives you some sound advice about getting on with your life.
16. Getting Help, Finding Information, and Looking Stuff Up. If this book isn't enough Emily Doskiow points you to where you can get more help.
And there you have a brief description of this very helpful book. Well, helpful if you're getting a divorce. I hope your not, but if you are, than you can't go wrong with this book.
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