Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges

Product Description A road map for late-life divorce\nDivorce can be devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for those who divorce later in life, with complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.\nAttorney Janice Green brings over 40 years of experience as a divorce lawyer, and in particular, her skill in counseling clients over 50, to Divorce After 50. She addresses:\ndivorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce)
how to receive the best guidance from lawyers and professional advisers
dividing marital property fairly
retirement plan rules
alimony, and
keeping good health care.\nThe 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.
Review Author's Comment Divorce is always a time of upheaval, but after age 50, it has a feel, context, and issues different from a marital disruption at a younger age. Having more years behind you than ahead changes one’s focus and needs. Estate planning, financial planning, health care costs, mental capacity events, involvement of adult children, and more immediate retirement calculations are significant inquiries and concerns in an older divorce. What prompted my writing Divorce After 50 was the fact that few divorce attorneys were paying attention to these relevant issues, and I wanted potential divorce clients to be effective self-advocates and consumers of legal services and be better prepared to make monumental decisions impacting the remainder of their lives.\n"Silver winner Benjamin Franklin Award." Independent Book Publishers Association "Dealing with Divorce after 50 -- health conditions, adult children, cheating and hidden assets! How aging affects your decisions." KGO TV - ABC 7 San Francisco, CA -The View from the Bay “Nolo has been publishing excellent self-help legal manuals since 1971.” Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine “Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software.” Los Angeles Times "Green, a family law attorney, offers a guide for individuals getting divorced after age 50. She describes the role of lawyers, family members, children, and others, then divorce options, division of property, assets, debts and taxes, health care coverage, financial survival, estate planning issues, and the settlement agreement, ending with survival stories." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView About the Author Attorney Janice L. Green has practiced family law for more than 30 years. She is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, named to Best Lawyers in America, and a Texas Monthly Super Lawyer. Ms. Green writes and speaks on Divorce and “Gray Divorce” issues. She has been interviewed and quoted in numerous national and online publications, including The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Kiplinger's Retirement Report, Bottom Line, AARP Bulletin, Consumer Report--Personal and many other national print and online publications. Ms. Green has also appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show and Talk of the Nation, Huffington Post's "Live" and on ABC's top rated show, "View from the Bay."