Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney.
With compassion and understanding, Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers:
understand the divorce process
learn about different types of divorce, including mediated, collaborative, and contested
identify and divide property and assets fairly
work with mediators or lawyers
avoid expensive and painful court battles
establish child custody and visitation arrangements
handle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforced
draft a marital settlement agreement
deal with divorce emergencies
address post-divorce issues, and
negotiate and settle spousal support.
Table des matières
1. Getting Oriented
2. First Steps After You Decide to Divorce
3. When You Can Agree: Uncontested Divorce
4. Working It Out: Divorce Mediation
5. When You Can’t Agree: Contested Divorce and Trial
6. Custody Decisions and Parenting
7. Custody Disputes
8. Child Support
9. Yours, Mine, and Ours: Basics of Marital Property
10. Yours, Mine, and Uncle Sam’s: Dividing Property
11. Spousal Support and Health Insurance
12. Military Divorce: Special Issues
13. Getting It in Writing: Preparing Your Marital Settlement Agreement
14. Critical Care: When Things Really Go Wrong
15. After the Divorce
16. Getting Help, Finding Information, and Looking Stuff Up
Appendix
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area for more than 22 years. She specializes in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is a graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce and coauthor of A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples.
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