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Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges
by Janice GreenA road map for late-life divorce Divorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning. Attorney Janice Green brings 30-plus years of experience as a divorce lawyer, and in particular her experience counseling clients over 50, to Divorce After 50. She addresses: Divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce) How to receive the best guidance from lawyers and professional advisers Dividing marital property fairly Retirement plan rules Spousal support (alimony) How divorce affects estate planning Keeping good health care (updated to include new rules under the Affordable Care Act) The 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.
Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges
by Janice GreenLegal information and practical advice for older Americans going through a divorce. The legal, financial, and emotional challenges they face are different from those that apply to younger divorcees. Divorce After 50 is the only book around that addresses legal and financial concerns for this age group. Learn about different ways to divorce (mediation, collaborative law, or litigation), how to divide property, how to plan for post-divorce finances, what to do with retirement funds, and how health care and estate plans are affected by divorce
Divorce Express
by Paula DanzigerPhoebe's parents didn't start "getting their act together" until they got a divorce when she was thirteen. Now that she's fourteen, she spends weekdays with her father in Woodstock, New York, and commutes on the bus called the Divorce Express for weekends with her mother in New York City. It seems that joint custody means more drastic changes for Phoebe than for either parent. She's got to deal with all the crises in their lives as well as in her own, and it's hard to become a part of things in Woodstock when she's not around on weekends. Her life improves when Phoebe becomes friends with Rosie, an offbeat Divorce Express regular-and Dave, her secret crush, asks her for a date. But just when Phoebe thinks she's got everything under control, her mother announces she's planning to marry a man Phoebe can't bear.
Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent/Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex
by Richard A. WarshakYour ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affection--even, in extreme cases, contact with them. Backed by twenty-five years of experience in helping families, Dr. Richard Warshak presents powerful strategies for dealing with everything from tainted parent-child relationships in which children are disrespectful or reluctant to show their affection to disturbances in which children virtually disown an entire side of the family. Divorce Poison offers advice on how to: Recognize early warning signs of trouble; React if your children refuse to see you; Respond to rude and hateful behavior; Avoid the seven most common errors made by rejected parents. This groundbreaking work gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children and provides legal and mental-health professionals with practical advice to help their clients and ensure the welfare of children.
Divorce Step by Step: A Practical Guide to Navigating the Challenges Ahead
by René VercoeThe step-by-step guide to a successful divorce—and a better future Divorce is one of life's most complicated, stressful, and overwhelming experiences. How can you make practical, long-term decisions amid so much emotional chaos? Divorce Step by Step helps ease the strain, guiding you through the divorce process, and showing you that it is possible to look forward to the next phase of your life with confidence and optimism. This book is your trusted reference for finding the legal, financial, and personal resources you'll need. Consider it your road map for getting organized, staying focused, and moving through the legal system as smoothly as possible during this difficult time. Divorce Step by Step features: Your cost-saving courtroom companion—Gather and keep track of vital settlement information so you can be fully prepared to meet with a lawyer and save yourself hundreds of dollars on billable hours—or find out if you need to hire a lawyer at all. Building your case—Arm yourself with the facts on accountants, therapists, and more to help you develop the best possible case for your settlement. Advice for every divorce—This book provides support for people on both sides of the decision, as well as same-sex couples, immigrants, and retirees experiencing "gray divorce" whose legal and financial challenges may be different. This practical approach to divorce will help you manage the details so you can move toward a new beginning.
Divorce Taxation
by Melvyn B. FrumkesComplicated rules can slow down your progress as you work your way through the taxation pitfalls and opportunities that abound in divorces. Now there's help. Frumkes on Divorce Taxation quickly guides you through trouble spots and alerts you to potential tax savings in property distribution, support, and more. It offers on-target explanations, examples, specimen clauses, forms, checklists, tables, and other practical planning tools--all designed to reduce the work in divorce tax planning. Melvyn B. Frumkes' problem-solving book is loaded with how-to gems like these: * Structure make-up alimony payments to side-step income recapture * Transfer an IRA tax-free * Avoid non-deductible child support treatment * Qualify alimony as taxable and deductible * Bypass tax on interest payments * Enforce the record requirements of property transfers * Shift the dependency exemption and the child tax credit to the non-custodial parent * Deduct a portion of the attorney's fees
Divorce Tools & Techniques
by Rory T. WeilerA divorce is an emotional and legal minefield. Without a detailed plan of action, even an experienced practitioner can be flummoxed by "routine" custody arrangements or property valuation issues; the danger is even greater when the case involves complicated issues arising out of a prenuptial agreement, a bankruptcy, or a family business. Divorce Tools & Techniques is your action plan. From the initial meeting with a prospective client through trial and post-judgment matters, Divorce Tools & Techniques provides step-by-step guidance based on author Rory T. Weiler's 30+ years' experience handling divorce cases. For example, you will learn how to: * Lay the groundwork for trial early in the attorney-client relationship * Take control of negotiations without saying a word * Deal with a recalcitrant client * Deal with a stubborn client * Deal with a forgetful witness Manage the ups and downs of the divorce process and achieve the best for your clients with this practical and affordable guide.
Divorce in Louisiana: The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect (Divorce In)
by Betsy A. FischerProviding accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in Louisiana, this guide provides answers to 360 queries such as What is the mediation process in Louisiana and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets, and the house? What actions might influence child custody? How are bills divided and paid during the divorce? How much will a divorce cost? and Will a spouse have to pay some or all attorney fees? Structured in a question-and-answer format, this divorce handbook provides clear and concise responses to help build confidence and give the peace of mind needed to meet the challenges of a divorce proceeding.
Divorce is Not the End of the World: Zoe's and Evan's Coping Guide for Kids
by Zoe Stern Evan Stern Ellen Sue SternA teenage brother and sister whose parents are divorced discuss topics relating to this situation, respond to letters from other kids, and offer tips based on their experiences.
Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children
by William JeynesTrace the influence of family factors on children's emotional and educational well-being!The effect of family changes on children's academic success is a new subject for study. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children is a comprehensive volume that brings research on this hotly debated topic up to date. With clear tables and incisive arguments, it is a single-volume reference on this vexing sociocultural problem. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children offers a close look at the historical background and current theory of this field of study. But it is more than a compendium of known facts and completed studies. It examines issues of appropriate methodology and points out concerns for planning future research. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children summarizes current knowledge of the effects of various influences on children's emotional and educational well-being, including: divorce and remarriage single-parent families nontraditional family structures race socioeconomic status mobility Educators, theorists, sociologists, and psychologists will find this volume an essential resource. With hundreds of useful references and clear organization, it presents new ideas in an easy-to-use format that makes it an ideal textbook as well.
Divorce: Causes and Consequences
by Alison Clarke-Stewart Cornelia BrentanoThis comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on children, adults, and society. Alison Clarke-Stewart and Cornelia Brentano synthesize the most up-to-date information on divorce from a variety of disciplinary perspectives with thoughtful analysis of psychological issues. They convey the real-life consequences of divorce with excerpts from autobiographies by young people, and they also include guidelines for social policies that would help to diminish the detrimental effects of divorce.
DivorceCare: Hope, Help, and Healing During and After Your Divorce
by Steve Grissom Kathy LeonardThere is joy, strength, and healing available to you in the midst of separation or divorce.Things may look bleak right now. Your world is a mix of shock, anger, hurt, and hopelessness. Many of the people around you don't understand the depth of your pain or the complexity of the challenges you face. You feel rejected, betrayed, and exhausted. You wonder if the pain will ever end. But recovery from separation and divorce is possible.In this 365-day devotional, you will meet men and women who have come through the darkness of separation and divorce and who now walk in the bright hope of God's love and healing. You will be encouraged and inspired by some of today's most respected and well-known Christian leaders and psychologists, including Kay Arthur, Dr. Tim Clinton, H. Norman Wright, and Dr. Tony Evans. The daily readings and heartfelt prayers in DivorceCare affirm God's love for you. You'll discover that the divorce process can be a powerful catalyst for good in your life, transforming deep loss into meaningful growth with God."DivorceCare is the finest material . . . it will provide help, hope, and healing for your life and family." -- Dr. Dennis Rainey, President, FamilyLife™"DivorceCare is a wonderful combination of wise advice and assurances that God still loves you." -- Dr. Tim Clinton, President, American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)"This devotional encourages, inspires, and brings hope to healing hearts. Daily you will be reminded that you are loved, cared for, and can face life with a renewed confidence that comes only from God." -- Dr. Linda Mintle, Author of Divorce Proofing Your Marriage and Breaking Free from Anger and Unforgiveness
Divorced, without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife (Routledge Series on Family Therapy and Counseling)
by Debra D. CastaldoThe topic of women divorced at midlife without children is one that has, to date, been absent from professional and academic literature, though these women make up a considerable and growing portion of our population. This book explores the experience, meaning, and impact of divorce at midlife for women without children, and provides insights into the unique stressors and issues confronting these individuals so that the practitioner can better anticipate and meet their needs. Clinical considerations and case examples will be presented via the narrative stories of women who have experienced this unusual role in a world that is still primarily centered on marriage and mothering. This book provides case examples, clinical themes, treatment recommendations, and suggests coping techniques and strategies. Castaldo draws heavily upon social constructionist, feminist, and narrative perspectives as theoretical frameworks for the book, as well as the results of her own qualitative research study. She suggests new concepts for women’s psychological development, including: an expanded family life cycle to include a normalized stage of mature single adulthood and a developmental process of autonomous competence for women. Other critical coping skills include meaning modification, role innovation, self-nurturing, expanded intimacy and attachment, and multi-diverse industriousness.
Divorcing
by Susan TaubesNow back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie&’s childhood in pre–World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts Divorcing, however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life.Susan Taubes&’s startlingly original novel was published in 1969 but largely ignored at the time; after the author&’s tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to discover a splintered, glancing, caustic, and lyrical work by a dazzlingly intense and inventive writer.
Divorcing Dwayne (Francine Harper, Book #1)
by J. L. MilesFrancine Harper's in the Pickville Springs County Jail facing felony assault charges. Her offense? She shot at her husband, Dwayne, and his lover, Carla, after catching them together-- in the very bed her daddy had carved and given to Francine and Dwayne on their wedding day. Even though she hit the bed and missed the lovers, she soon learns she's committed a felony, and the deputy district attorney-- who's never been fond of her since she jilted his brother-- is determined to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law. On the other hand, Dwayne is a local celebrity, a talented fiddle player with his own bluegrass band, the Rocky Bottom River Boys. Things are looking up for the band, and they have been selected to record the soundtrack for director Frederick Ford Gumbello's latest film, Oh Mother, Oh Father, Where Art Thou? When Gumbello comes to town to meet the boys, he becomes enamored with the locale and stays to film the movie since Pickville Springs is the perfect setting for the film. When Francine makes bail, aided by her best friend, Ray Anne Pickles, she discovers that the checking account she shares with Dwayne contains thirty thousand dollars she can't account for, and she starts worrying about him. Strange things have been going on, and she still loves him. But she fears that he may have gotten involved with the local mob. Soon Francine finds herself in the arms of rising movie star Clay Carson, which is the last straw for Dwayne, who assaults Clay and disappears. When Dwayne can't be found anywhere, Francine is suspected of foul play, and is arrested for his suspected murder. But Francine is determined to find Dwayne, save him from the mob, and solve the mystery-- with Ray Anne's help, of course. In the interim, she discovers inner strengths and regains her dignity. Now the situation with Dwayne-- that's another story.
Divórcio
by Susan TaubesConsiderado uma das redescobertas literárias do momento, Divórcio é um romance inovador e brilhante que coloca Susan Taubes ao lado das maiores figuras da Literatura contemporânea. Livro parcialmente autobiográfico, que conjuga ficção, memória e sonho, Divórcio é considerado uma das mais entusiasmantes redescobertas literárias do momento, que coloca Susan Taubes ao lado das maiores figuras da Literatura contemporânea. Um romance inovador e brilhante sobre o colapso de um casamento, mas acima de tudo a descrição do abismo que se abre entre uma mulher e o seu mundo interior e exterior. Sophie Blind, a protagonista desta história, revisita o passado e interpreta o presente, escava os recantos da sua consciência, por meio de episódios fragmentados, avanços e recuos - para descobrir no seu casamento, e no dos seus pais, um processo de anulação de si própria e de crescente atracção pela morte, somente interrompido pelo acto da escrita. Divórcio foi publicado em 1969 e, à época, largamente ignorado. Com a morte precoce por suicídio da sua autora acabou por cair no esquecimento. Experimental, negro e espirituoso, é o primeiro e único romance de Susan Taubes, uma das mentes mais interessantes do século XX. «Divórcio é literatura que olha para lá da vida.» THE NEW YORKER «Divórcio é feito da matéria dos cultos literários. Há livros que são meramente reeditados. Mas, neste caso, estamos perante uma ressurreição.» THE PARIS REVIEW «Uma obra extraordinária, décadas à frente do seu tempo.» THE NATION
Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy
by Jena PincottBrain Candy for expectant parents! Pregnancy is an adventure. Lots of books tell you the basics—“the baby is the size of [insert fruit here].” But pregnant science writer Jena Pincott began to wonder just how a baby might tinker with her body—and vice versa—and chased down answers to the questions she wouldn’t ask her doctor, such as: • Does stress sharpen your baby’s mind—or dull it? • Can you predict your baby’s temperament? • Why are babies born in the darker months of the year more likely to grow up to be novelty-loving risk takers? • Are bossy, dominant women more likely to have boys? • How can the cells left behind by your baby affect you years later? This is a different kind of pregnancy book—thoughtful, fun, and filled with information you won’t find anywhere else.
Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked
by Paul RaeburnFor too long, we've thought of fathers as little more than sources of authority and economic stability in the lives of their children. Yet cutting-edge studies drawing unexpected links between fathers and children are forcing us to reconsider our assumptions and ask new questions: What changes occur in men when they are "expecting"? Do fathers affect their children's language development? What are the risks and rewards of being an older-than-average father at the time the child is born? What happens to a father's hormone levels at every stage of his child's development, and can a child influence the father's health? Just how much do fathers matter? In Do Fathers Matter? the award-winning journalist and father of five Paul Raeburn overturns the many myths and stereotypes of fatherhood as he examines the latest scientific findings on the parent we've often overlooked. Drawing on research from neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, geneticists, and developmental psychologists, among others, Raeburn takes us through the various stages of fatherhood, revealing the profound physiological connections between children and fathers, from conception through adolescence and into adulthood—and the importance of the relationship between mothers and fathers. In the process, he challenges the legacy of Freud and mainstream views of parental attachment, and also explains how we can become better parents ourselves. Ultimately, Raeburn shows how the role of the father is distinctly different from that of the mother, and that embracing fathers' significance in the lives of young people is something we can all benefit from. An engrossing, eye-opening, and deeply personal book that makes a case for a new perspective on the importance of fathers in our lives no matter what our family structure, Do Fathers Matter? will change the way we view fatherhood today.
Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded?
by Vanessa Van PettenVanessa Petten bridges the communication gap between teens and parents. Every parent fears "losing" their child. But in this revolutionary book, youthologist Vanessa Van Petten translates what parents want to say into what teens want to hear. At 16, Vanessa Van Petten started her award-winning website, RadicalParenting. com, in reaction to sudden friction with her parents. Today, Vanessa and more than one hundred teen contributors help thousands of parents build and maintain healthy, strong, mutually fulfilling relationships with their teenage children-by providing prescriptive advice straight from the source. From classic fights like dating and chores to 21st Century issues such as sexting and cyberbullying, this comprehensive book provides step-by-step guidance on every worry, including: Lying Peer Pressure Social Networking Sex School Drugs It's never too late to reconnect. Vanessa Van Petten helps you learn what's really going on in your child's life, and most importantly- understand when to put your foot down and when to let go. .
Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups
by Delia EphronTwenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages. Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend's house in the company of a young child. She knows the proper order in which the following actions take place: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows what to do with bubble gum. She also deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron's painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren's hilarious drawings, which-as ever-present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are.From the Hardcover edition.
Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups
by Delia EphronTwenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages. Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend's house in the company of a young child. She knows the proper order in which the following actions take place: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows what to do with bubble gum. She also deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron's painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren's hilarious drawings, which-as ever-present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are.From the Hardcover edition.
Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers
by Quinton SkinnerIt takes a baby to turn a guy into a man.Hard-won lessons of a first-time father -- the good, the bad, and the big-time changes."When I used to see a father holding a baby, I thought he was either a poor sap or else an übermensch possessed with talents and levels of forbearance that I would never attain. Now I live on the other side. I'm someone's daddy, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me."From pregnancy and childbirth through the whirlwind first year of fatherhood, Quinton Skinner shares the adventure of a lifetime: becoming a daddy -- and loving it. Nobody said it would be easy. But if imminent fatherhood made Quinton sit up and take notice, baby Natasha's arrival was the making of the man.Here, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight, is his survival guide for first-time fathers everywhere, filled with hilarious anecdotes and practical advice on how to negotiate that critical first year of your baby's wonderful life.After a year of on-the-job training, Skinner explores:* Dealing with the pride -- and panic -- of your wife's pregnancy (see page 7)* To be or not to be (in birthing class) (see page 57)* The moment of truth in the delivery room (see page 77)* Finding romance after parenthood (see page 102)* Being the perfect dad while spacing out in front of the TV (see page 112)* The joys of sleep deprivation (see page 192)* Becoming a baby chef (see page 177)* Avoiding the poorhouse (see page 39)From the Trade Paperback edition.
Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
by Sabrina LambYouth financial education is an urgent issue, and author Sabrina Lamb believes that African American parents first must reeducate themselves about finances to make sure the next generation does not fall into the spending trap that can be a family legacy. The lack of a healthy financial education has generational impact, causing families to be financially vulnerable, squander financial resources, and fail at wealth accumulation. With step-by-step advice and exercises for parents and young people, Do I Look Like an ATM? sets out to establish new financial behavior so children will avoid the personal economic problems that have plagued the culture. The book guides parents through self-examination of their financial habits. By performing the exercises in this book and having candid discussions, parents can, together with their children, become engaged citizens in the world of money. With new financial traditions and a better understanding money and its meaning, the next generation will realize the true power of wealth and use their money wisely.
Do I Need a Doctor?
by Amy TaoFrom scrapes and bruises to mosquito bites and hiccups, Colin learns when a visit to the doctor is needed.
Do Lemons Have Feathers?: More to Autism than Meets the Eye
by David J. Burns Andrew Sercombe"Are you beginning to see past the disability and starting to appreciate the gift?" In this unashamedly honest book, David J. Burns draws on his own lived experience of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to provide guidance on how to take advantage of the supposed disadvantage. The book is filled with often hilarious anecdotes, spanning the confusion of his early diagnosis, to his marriage and life with his four children, as David proffers his advice on how to cope with everything from school work to flirting. Part memoir, part guide, and written with a refreshingly funny outlook, this book can be picked up and dipped into whether you're looking for encouragement, practical coping strategies, or a perspective of life as seen through the lens of ASD.