We live in the era of disposable relationships. Everywhere we look, people are shedding themselves of their mates. Over the past decade, about one half of all marriages have ended. Someone once said that we treat our spouses like we do our socks, discarding them after light use. Only we're really much nicer to the socks, since we don't actually throw them out.

The Successful Divorce : What You Must Know and Do Now (Alabama State Edition) (The Successful Divorce, 1)

Wood, John M.

Professional Solutions Group

Held Hostage by Lawyers: How to Hire, Fire, Sue or Absolve Your Attorney

Upshaw, Larry

Johnston, Coyt R.

According to a survey published in TIME magazine, the average net worth of married couples today, ages 51 to 61, is $132,200. Those who are divorced average only $33,700.

Saving Your Assets When You Can't Save Your Marriage (The Successful Divorce, 3)

Business & Money

Shaw Jr., Paul B.

Personal Finance

A chilling account of how institutional health care and the Texas political establishment, under the guise of "compassionate conservatism," has conspired to deny your civil liberties when you or a loved one is killed or seriously injured.

Cheaper to Kill Than to Maim: A Patient's Guide to Medical Malpractice in Texas

Barrett, Dan

Southern Divorce takes a step-by-step look at the divorce process in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. All across the "divorce belt," couples are breaking up for a variety of reasons. Author and attorney John C. Mayoue examines this phenomenon and offers a roadmap for those who are navigating their way through the family codes of the southern states. Learn how to emerge from divorce in the South emotionally and financially intact. What You'll Learn From This Book - What causes so much divorce in the South - How to make a strategic divorce plan - What makes a winning case - The role of fault in a no-fault world - How to fight for your children - How to calculate child support - How to divide your property - Who'll get the house? - What about the debts? - Figuring alimony - What about people who live together? - How to evaluate your attorney - How to prepare for trial - How to enforce your decree

Southern Divorce: Why Family Breakups Have Fractured the South and How to Cope with It (The Successful Divorce series)

Parenting & Relationships

Mayoue, John C.

Family Relationships

For a general audience that needs to learn the benefits of collaborative law, this book provides exciting new concepts that can make family breakups less painful. Collaborative law divorces are available in only half of the states, and this book tells how this method works in Texas. The process of a collaborative divorce, which is a nonjudicial proceeding done outside the courtroom, is discussed in detail and contrasted with a hypothetical divorce between the same parties with the same facts but who have resorted to litigation. Through the experiences of people divorcing under collaborative law, their attorneys, therapists, certified divorce planners, and other experts, collaborative law is shown to be a method that saves money and preserves children's self-esteem, friends' loyalties, and the mental health of the divorcing couple.

Divorce Without Disaster: Collaborative Law in Texas

Politics & Social Sciences

Brumley, Janet P.

Sociology

During hard economic times, the rigors of divorce can strip unprepared people of money and dignity. That's the message of this new book from four of the state's most acclaimed family attorneys.
The 336-page book details the financial issues that can complicate a modern divorce. Besides telling how to divorce successfully in good times and bad, the authors explain ...
How to organize a winning case How to calculate child support How to get the most from a family business Who gets retirement accounts, stock options How to get the most from the marital residence When to choose a collaborative law divorce How to use mediation How to enforce a decree
In the book, the authors list 10 ways to control legal fees, 12 steps to a more productive divorce and 14 financial planning suggestions for a better life after divorce.
Since the first edition of this book was published in 2005, a deep recession with high unemployment has made divorce more difficult and forced attorneys to think more creatively. The authors say that no one would go into another type of business deal without preparation, so participants should take every opportunity to acquaint themselves with the divorce process.
From the Publisher
For most people who go through a divorce, it not only is the most emotional phase of their lives, but it’s also the most complex business deal they will ever undertake. Some people are shocked at the large number of marital assets they have and have never really totaled before. Others are shocked at how little they have after a near-lifetime of wedded life.
Divorce is shocking to the senses, and these authors have seen the extent of that shock over a total of more than 80 years of experience as divorce lawyers. With Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce, they wanted to lay out the basic elements of a marital dissolution so that anyone with the price of this book can gain rudimentary knowledge and go into divorce with eyes wide open.
These authors didn’t go into this exercise in an attempt to dazzle readers, either with their clever prose or their legal pomposity. This book is basic education about a process that is a moving target. They say “should” and “might” more often than “will.” Every case is different, with facts that fit only that case. Add to that different judges, juries and jurisdictions and it’s impossible to predict the outcome of a divorce.
But if you purchase and read Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce before making many of the major decisions you will save in divorce court, you will be far ahead of the game.

Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce (The Successful Divorce series)

Robertson, Rick

Eykel, Ike Vanden

Murphy, Kathryn

A complete maintenance manual for the heart, this guide offers a wide-ranging list of heart disease prevention and treatment guidelines from one of America's most experienced cardiologists. Advocating effective heart maintenance, this book puts readers in charge of their own heart health by encouraging lifestyle changes among those who are plagued by family histories of heart trouble, live sedentary lifestyles, and practice bad eating habits. The myths of overnight success in weight loss through fad diets are debunked, and a program for overall health and well-being through the individual's commitment is presented. An optimistic tone pervades this text with the persuasive suggestion that under most circumstances, those who follow common-sense guidelines can live long and productive lives.

101 Steps To A Healthy Heart: An Owner's Manual

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Anwar, Azam, M.D.

Diets & Weight Loss

When a divorce takes place in Texas, the result can be disastrous and long-lasting for parents and children. Noted divorce attorneys Ike Vanden Eykel and Sharla Fuller have seen the tragic side of family breakups. With [i]Lone Star Divorce: The NEW Edition[/i], they hope to reduce the heartache and mistrust so common with divorce in this state. Following in the aftermath of [i]Successful Lone Star Divorce[/i] and [i]Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce[/i], the authors lay the groundwork for a more productive divorce, one where all parties can emerge emotionally and financially intact.From the initial decision to divorce through filing to the courtroom or settlement conference to the struggle to begin a new life, these experts are with you, offering advice on how to control costs, what to tell your children, how to retain assets, when to depend on mediation or collaborative law, how to move forward in life and much, much more. In this one volume, the authors provide information on the unique nature of a Texas divorce that can save you thousands.

Lone Star Divorce: The NEW Edition

Fuller, Sharla

Divorce is the biggest single business deal most Texans will ever undertake. This comprehensive updated book is designed to help couples retain their assets when they divorce-from spouses who split household items to married business partners who divide large, privately held companies-and emerge from divorce financially intact no matter how difficult the economic landscape. The authors provide expertise in financial planning, estate planning, retirement issues, counseling, real estate, business valuation, taxes, insurance, bankruptcy and other areas affecting the financial future of divorcing Texans.What You Can Learn From This Book* How to organize a winning case * How to calculate child support * How to get the most out of your house * What to do with a family business * Who gets retirement accounts, stock options, personal property * When to choose a collaborative law divorce * How to use mediation * How to enforce the divorce decree

Protecting Your Assets from a Texas Divorce

Heather King

Ike Eykel

Rick Robertson

Charla Bradshaw Conner

Finance

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