Divorce For Dummies - Softcover

Ventura, John; Reed, Mary

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ISBN 10: 0764584170 ISBN 13: 9780764584176

Publisher: For Dummies, 2005

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There’s no such thing as an easy divorce. But knowing what to expect and being prepared to cope with the emotional, legal, and financial complications of a divorce certainly lessen the pain.Divorce For Dummies, Second Edition helps you minimize the stress and strain of divorce by cutting legal costs and knowing everything you should ask your attorney and expect your attorney to ask you. This reassuring guide covers everything you need to know about divorce, including:

Preparing financially for your divorce
Putting your divorce in motion
Telling your kids
Division of assets and spousal support
Child custody and support
Hiring and working with an attorney
Negotiating on your own behalf
New laws covering common law marriages, homosexual partnerships, and parents

Complete with a directory of divorce Web sites and tips on how to move on, this is the resource you need to survive your divorce and thrive in your new life.

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From the Back Cover:

Get empowering tips for cutting legal costs and coping emotionally

Get through divorce proceedings and all the legal, financial, and personal stress

Divorce doesn't have to be about winners, losers, and huge legal bills. Filled with practical advice, this friendly guide demystifies the process, explaining revised family, divorce, and bankruptcy laws and current child support trends in plain English. You'll see how to negotiate terms, avoid costly mistakes, cope with your emotions, find support — and move on with your life!

Discover how to

Assess whether you're ready for divorce
Understand your legal rights
Cut costs by negotiating terms yourself
Find and work with an attorney
Avoid going to trial
Help your kids get through it

About the Author:

John Ventura is an attorney and a nationally known authority and advocate on consumer law and financial issues. As a boy, he dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest so he could help others. To prepare for that career, he spent his high school years in a seminary. After graduation, John decided he could best pursue his dream by combining journalism with the law, so he earned a degree in both from the University of Houston.
Today, John has an interest in four law offices in the Rio Grande Valley, where he offers legal advice in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer law. His goal as an attorney and as an author is to provide individuals with the information and advice they need to make the laws work for them, not against them.
John has written 12 books on consumer and small-business legal and financial matters and is the author of Law For Dummies (Wiley). He has written for Home Office Computing and Small Business Computing magazines and has written a regular column for a Texas business journal. John also has hosted a weekly radio program on legal issues.
John has been a frequent network TV show guest on CNN, CNN-fn, CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Lifetime Network and has done numerous national and local radio programs. He has provided expert opinion for publications including Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Black Enterprise, Inc., Martha Stewart Living, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.

Mary Reed writes about financial and legal issues affecting consumers and small-business owners. She coauthored Divorce For Dummies (Wiley), Good Advice for a Bad Economy (Berkley), and an e-book entitled Stop Debt Collectors Cold (www.stopebtcollectorscold.com). She has ghostwritten 11 other books for consumers and small-business owners and has also written for Good Housekeeping Magazine, Home Office Computing Magazine, Hispanic Business, as well as for several Texas newspapers.

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