Divorce Strategy: Tactics for a Civil Financial Divorce

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Divorce Strategy: Tactics for a Civil Financial Divorce

[by Laura Johnson, Wolf Hollow Publishing, © 1997, 8½" x 11½", 232 pages, Worksheets, Charts, Tables, Index, Table of Contents, Glossary, Appendix, Excerpts, Out of Stock]
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It's Your Divorce, Do It Your Way

Are you thinking about divorce or involved in one now?
Are you afraid of what will happen to your family finances?
Do you distrust the legal system and divorce lawyers?
Do you feel as if your future is out of your control?
Do you want to do something about it?

That's where Divorce Strategy fits in. It gives you the tools and information you need to plan and manage your financial divorce. It explains what most lawyers either won't take the time to tell you or don't want you to know. The methods and tactics described in this book will help you take control so you can reduce, and in some cases eliminate, the financial consequences of your divorce.

Learn How You Can:

Negotiate with confidence and superior knowledge.
Decide whether to settle or go to trial.
Organize your information for the most effective presentation.
Ask the right questions to get the answer you need to make good decisions.
Customize your divorce settlement to suit your family's needs.
Take a more assertive and informed approach about your divorce.
Preserve your assets so you have more property in the marital estate.

Divorce has three sides; the emotional, the legal and the financial. Most divorcing couples spend the bulk of their time getting through the anger, pain and grief associated with divorce and worrying about how the divorce will effect their children. They leave the legal divorce up to the lawyers and, since much of getting a divorce is about how assets, debts and income are divided, they also let the legal system decide financial issues for them as well.

Why is it a mistake to let lawyers and the legal system make decisions about your financial future? Most divorce lawyers, aside from what they learn on-the-job, in statutes or from case law, have little or no education or experience in handling other people's money. Divorce lawyers concentrate on splitting assets and debts and setting amounts of support. They only deal with the here and now, and usually don't think about the mechanics of making whatever is in the order actually happen or about the future needs of the ex-spouses. Many divorced couples learn after the divorce that their divorce judgment or agreement has loopholes, doesn't work as it should for their bi-nuclear family, or costs them both additional time and money to fix.

That is why it's very important for you to take responsibility now for the financial aspects of your divorce. You can do this by becoming educated about divorce, money and strategies for realistically dividing assets, assigning debts, setting reasonable support amounts and having reachable, post-divorce goals. Divorce Strategy can show you how to do this, and more.

"One of the women in my support group brought a copy of Divorce Strategy to a meeting. Everyone became so excited about the book, that I ordered a copy of it for each of them. Laura Johnson is right on about divorce. She has written a wonderful and empowering book for divorcing people. I highly recommend it."
-- Mary K. Carey, Divorce Support Group Leader, Jackson, MI (March 1998)

"Laura Johnson's Divorce Strategy: Tactics For A Civil Financial Divorce takes the reader through a financial divorce and the legal system by which it is accomplished. . . . By following the suggestions encompassed in Divorce Strategy, a divorcing person will be able to take a more assertive and informed approach to their divorce, knowing what questions to ask to get the answers they need to make good decisions."
-- Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review (From the Midwest Book Review as published in the Internet Bookwatch at The Law/Justice Bookshelf, The Bookwatch, Reviewer's Bookwatch and the Wisconsin Bookwatch in October 1997.

"Divorce Strategy is a great book. I think my clients will really benefit from it and will recommend it at initial interviews of future clients."
-- Robert D. Feder, Family Law Lawyer, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, Editor of Valuation Strategies in Divorce, 4th Edition (April 1998)

Buzz Review News
"First word that comes to mind, methodical. Black and white, step by step, no nonsense directions for navigating one of life's more difficult decisions. . . . All of it is presented in easy to read, easy to understand words that amount to indispensable resource tools. At a time when you may feel beset by strong winds, Divorce Strategy will be the anchor that keeps you in calm waters."
-- Leann Arndt, Buzz Review News, Buzzy's Book for 02/07/98

"Divorce Strategy ... readers specific, proven techniques and ideas to help them plan and manage their divorce."
-- The Sun Reporter, Ethnic News Watch. (December 1997)

"The information in Divorce Strategy is sound and, I believe, very helpful and easy to use."
-- Gloria Grening Wolk M.S.W., C.I.C., Financial Planner, Laguna Beach, CA, Author of Cash for the Final Days (October 1997)

"Divorce Strategy lays it on the line, the bottom line, about finances and divorce."
-- Judy Colbert, Crofton, MD, Author of Divorce Common Sense Handbook: 180+ Things Not To Do and 8+ Things Not To Do Before Your Divorce (September 1997)

Table of Contents
Glossary
Laura Johnson
Excerpts

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