Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce: Edition 6
Emily Doskow
Jun 2016 · Nolo
Ebook
528
Pages
About this ebook
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
handle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforced
draft a marital settlement agreement
deal with divorce emergencies
address post-divorce issues
negotiate and settle spousal support
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--with your dignity and sanity intact. Plus, easy-to-use charts make it simple to find the divorce laws in your state.
This edition has updated laws for all 50 states and highlight some big changes in specific states--for example, the book explains Californias new rules about what constitutes a true separation. This edition also includes a discussion of Obergefell--the recent U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling and how it affects divorce laws on a national level.
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
handle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforced
draft a marital settlement agreement
deal with divorce emergencies
address post-divorce issues
negotiate and settle spousal support
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--with your dignity and sanity intact. Plus, easy-to-use charts make it simple to find the divorce laws in your state.
This edition has updated laws for all 50 states and highlight some big changes in specific states--for example, the book explains Californias new rules about what constitutes a true separation. This edition also includes a discussion of Obergefell--the recent U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling and how it affects divorce laws on a national level.
About the author
Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area for more than 15 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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