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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce | 
| Author: Emily Doskow
Publisher: NOLO
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 56253
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1413308910
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730166
EAN: 9781413308914
Publication Date: August 29, 2008
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 Good book for a difficult situation October 4, 2006
10 out of 10 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.
Get this book before you hire a lawyer or make any concrete plans for your divorce April 5, 2007
10 out of 10 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.
Public libraries in particular must have this. December 12, 2006
6 out of 6 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
 Don't buy this book if you are looking for info specific to the laws of your state. January 20, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this book because on the front cover it says: "Covers the laws of your state." Baloney! This book does not tell you what the law is in your particular state. Whatever topic that is talked about in the book, sooner or later you'll read the phrase: "In some states" or "In many states". But almost never does this book specifically tell you what the law is in your particular state. If it can't tell you that, then what good is it? And over and over again the book tells you to consult an attorney.
If you are looking for a book that will give you specific information about the divorce laws in your state; this book isn't it. I'm sending it back.
I wish I had read this before embarking on my own cosmic hazing---oops, divorce October 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As someone just finishing up an acrimonious divorce I believe I am well-qualified to review this book.
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce by Emily Doskow is comprehensive and can save you lots of money. How? You won't have to spend hundreds of dollars asking your attorney questions that are fully covered in these pages. It will even help you choose a lawyer. (Pages 118-119.)
I found the style straightforward and clear. While it isn't written in a chummy way, there is sensitivity, and some kind comments that exhort you to take good care of yourself: body and mind.
Almost everything was useful; especially, the differences between the various types of divorces and their comparative costs.
There's even a special section for the military.
I liked her perspective on parental issues; especially those pertaining to custody, and the parenting agreement (pages 366-9).
In addition to the copious resources and websites, there were excellent book suggestions for every category of concern.
When you think of all the money you will spend divorcing, it seems this very small investment could help ease some of your worries, and make you a far savvier client to your lawyer.
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