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 includes new information on bankruptcy and foreclosure, and explains how both can affect divorce.
Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you’re getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for yourself and your children if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support.
Through mediation or a collaborative divorce, you can avoid huge legal bills and debilitating conflict with your ex. This book guides you through all the steps of negotiating a divorce settlement, using mediation or collaborative law.
This award winner book also includes divorce survival stories that illustrate your options and provide encouragement. They got through it, and with the help of Divorce After 50, you can, too.
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Provides tips from industry pros—including real estate agents, attorneys, home stagers, and more—as well as stories from home sellers. The 4th edition also includes changes in industry practices resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Explains divorce laws in the United States and tells how to handle a divorce step-by-step, discussing annulment, alimony, and child support, and includes many of the necessary forms.
Provides strategic advice for the child custody portion of a divorce, sharing coverage of topics ranging from outlining a plan and hiring a lawyer to enforcing broken agreements and making changes.
With this book, Californians can obtain an uncontested divorce without hiring an attorney. The first part of the book explains in detail how to divide property and settle custody, visitation, and child support issues.
All of the explanations, instructions, and examples are in the book, and the forms are available for download details inside the book. The legal forms in this book are not valid in Louisiana, Canada, or the U.S. Territories.