The good divorce
Subtitle: how to walk away financially sound and emotionally happy
By: Raoul Felder and Barbara Victor
Contributors: Victor, Barbara
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780312592967
Subjects: Divorce; Popular Works; Popular works
Description: Celebrity divorce lawyer Felder draws from his experience to show readers how to avoid an acrimonious divorce and move on with life. He uses his expert knowledge to suggest how to make divorce more fair, civilized, and painless.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Dance of death. Starting over ; What men and women expect out of marriage ; Knowing when to call it quits ; Choosing the right lawyer ; When to run, not walk, out of a lawyer's office ; Mediation ; Clients from Hell ; Pendente lite ; The Wildenstein case ; Fear, rage, blame : how to ruin a good divorce; title: The equality myth. Family court and supreme court ; Voices from the bench ; The gender equality myth ; Separate and commingled funds ; Grounds for divorce ; "Fair" is a four-letter word; title: Children. Custody and child support ; Child abuse ; Child abduction; title: History of love, marriage, and divorce. Then and now ; Marital rape and crime of passion; title: Happily ever after. Preparing for the end in the beginning ; Will the real me please stand up?; title: Appendix A. Sample intake questionnaire; title: Appendix B. Sample prenuptial agreement.