Divorce Law

Before starting a family law case with the court, it is critical to choose the resolution option that you feel is best for your case. This book provides in-depth explanations of the various resolution options available to resolve family law cases, including mediation and collaborative law.

In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.

This Texas Divorce Handbook is your Step by Step Guide to Successfully Navigating Texas Divorce. Within this book, you will find the answers you need about every aspect of divorce including:

1. Child custody

2. Child support

3. Spousal maintenance

4. Property division

5. Privacy and security

6. Choosing an attorney

7. Specific divorce laws in Texas

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system.

Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next.

Getting divorced is almost never easy, but this practical, plain-English guide helps you get through the proceedings with a minimum of stress and expense. It shows you the latest changes in collaborative divorces, common law, and same-sex marriages, and even custody law - and how to work out the terms so you can begin building a fulfilling post-divorce life.

Susan Forward draws on real-life voices and stories of both women and men struggling to free themselves from the frustrating, hurtful, and infuriating relationships with their toxic in-laws. Dr. Forward offers you highly effective communication and behavioral techniques for getting through to partners who won't or can't stand up to their parents. Next, she lays out accessible and practical ways to reclaim you marriage from your in-laws. She shows you what to say, what to do, and what limits to set. If you follow these strategies, you will find some peace in your relationship with them.

Half of all marriages end. Unfortunately, about 20% of divorces are high-conflict, involving frequent visits to court, allegations of abuse, and chronic disagreements regarding parenting schedules. In response to this conflict, some children become aligned with one parent against the other - even a parent who has done nothing to warrant the hostile rejection of their formerly loving children. These parents are on a painful journey with an uncertain outcome. Surviving Parental Alienation fills the tremendous need for concrete help for these parents.

Advice to ease your anxiety and frustration relating to divorce, custody and support. Even in the midst of troubling marriage situations, you will learn what you need to do. Using practical insight, this s guide provides direction about the key subjects that are likely to be encountered in the custody and/or divorce process in a way to arm yourself with the information you need. In this book you’ll learn: • How to keep your priorities straight while overcoming anger and fear • What to expect when you contact an attorney • To develop a focused approach to identify and gather the ...

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late. James Sexton knows this. After dealing with over 1000 clients whose marriages have dissolved over everything from an ill-advised threesome with the nanny to the uneven division of carpool duties, he also knows all of the what- not-to-dos for couples who want to build - and consistently work to preserve - a lasting, fulfilling relationship. Described by former clients as a "courtroom gunslinger" and "the sociopath you want on your side", Sexton tells the unvarnished truth about relationships. These usually derive from dishonest communication.

This audiobook plans to give you exactly what you need: the means to stay positive through constant affirmations designed to help improve oneself, change a bad behavior, or channel the universe to attract good things in your life. Packed with subliminal affirmations, the audiobook shows that in order to attract opportunities that will improve your health, love life, or even wealth, all you need are few minutes a day to shift your mind through positive affirmations.

Dating is hard. Dating in your 30s is even harder. Dating in Chicago is harder still. I haven't given up on finding my happily-ever-after, but in the age of swiping right and Netflix and chill, I'm wondering if everything is as temporary as my marriage turned out to be. Truth is, there is one guy I can't get my mind off of. Roarke Baldwin has salt and pepper hair I've dreamed of running my hands through, and I'm pretty sure that if I checked, he really does have a six-pack of abs underneath his suit.

Separating or divorcing a narcissist or someone who has narcissistic traits can be a difficult, draining experience. This book is written for the spouse of such a personality to support them step by step through the legal process, as well as through the difficult emotional journey that they'll be undertaking. It will help you recognize narcissistic behavior, prime you on what challenges lie ahead, and provide practical insights on how to survive the process. It will also help you work with your lawyer so you can both understand the potential pitfalls.

The moving and inspiring story of a young Creole/Black woman born in 1936 in New Orleans. Stung by the ugly hatred of racism, young Iris Duplantier Rideau learned from her grandmother to pass for white, affording her better opportunities than her darker-skinned friends and family. Moving to California with her mother, Iris experienced horrors that no child should endure, leaving her a single teenage mother without a future at 17. What would have stopped most people, only made Iris more determined. She took a grueling job in a sweatshop to support herself and her baby. Needing more education...

Isabel Walker has flown to Paris to offer moral support for Roxy, her pregnant stepsister. Roxy's husband, Charles-Henri, favorite son of a powerful French family, is having a love affair. Divorce seems imminent. When her entire family arrives to help with legal issues, Isabel feels intense pressure to keep everything from falling apart. And in the background, the unstable husband of Charles-Henri's lover lurks menacingly.

This is the second edition which has been updated to reflect new alimony tax laws. Gray Divorces are on the rise for adults aged 50 and older.Data shows that 66% of the time these divorces are being initiated by women. Sadly, women of gray divorce are at risk of irreparable financial harm, often accepting settlements that are unequal and unfair. Often times, women are trusting that her partner will do what is right for her and simply accepts what is being offered. The long-term impact of gray divorce on a woman’s financial security can be devastating. And don’t assume that reaching a ...

Divorce can be intimidating, but you don’t have to go through it alone. Miles Mason, Sr. set out to create the ultimate handbook to help a spouse through the divorce process. To that end, this book addresses a variety of topics that the compassionate professionals of the Miles Mason Family Law Group know best, including advice needed to get the learning process started, hiring your divorce team, custody and parenting plans, and how courts view dating during separation. The book is easy to read, and will be a valuable tool as you find your way through the divorce process.

Attorney Danny O’Brien thought her biggest problem was that her middle-aged widowed mother went to law school and insisted on joining Danny’s law practice. Until Danny heads to court for an uncontested divorce trial and a gun is found in her briefcase. Until the gun is linked to a murder trial in which her hotshot criminal lawyer husband represents an alleged cop killer. Until her husband is found dead, naked with a woman in a hotel room in Boston. Life can only get better. Until Danny unearths her husband’s clever secret life and starts to question whether he is alive and stalking ...

This guide to life after divorce for men will provide you a step-by-step, “how to” road map to help you with divorce and kids, divorce and finances, and the tools to lay the foundation for a great life. Maybe you have been left feeling confused and helpless after going through the process of a divorce, and you are not sure how to restart your life as a single man?

Neco and her family were planning to start a new life in Atlanta, Georgia when she discovers her husband is having an affair. She learns that although cheating accounts for nearly 30 percent of divorces, there are few resources for women to survive this devastating occurrence. Join our author as she takes us on her journey of survival as she navigates the process of divorce while maintaining her family, her career, and her sanity.