The Good Divorce
How to Walk Away Financially Sound and Emotionally Happy
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Raoul Felder, a take-no-prisoners divorce attorney, draws from his experience to show readers how to avoid an acrimonious divorce and move on with life
There is nothing better than a good marriage. But when a marriage goes bad, there is no better option than divorce to give men and women a chance to start over. Handled wisely, divorce can be a beginning, not an end. It is the doorway to a new life free of hurt, anger, and resentment.
Felder and Victor cover each phase of divorce, from knowing when to call it quits, to choosing a lawyer, to the final decree. They explore prenuptial contracts, mediation, alimony, child custody, same-sex marriage, and life after divorce. They also share some of the most important facts one should know such as:
• The first offer a woman gets when divorce negotiations begin is usually the best.
• In all divorces, income rather than assets determine who pays what to whom.
• Divorce is about compromise. Divorce court is not a boxing ring.
After years of watching how divorce can go tragically wrong, Felder uses his expert knowledge, including case histories from his list of celebrity clients, to suggest how to make divorce more fair, civilized, and painless.
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Felder and Victor (Getting Away With Murder) bring something new to the self-help divorce stable: schadenfreude. The authors mull relentlessly over tales from Felder's history as a divorce attorney for the wealthy. "If marriage is bad, there's nothing better than a good divorce," they offer, then proceed to eschew the amicable for the awful, offering countless cautionary tales that illustrate how not to get divorced, what not to do (for the record: anger, blame, and revenge). A third of the book seems to have been penned in order to offer train-wreck levity to those in marriages that have gone beyond the point of no return, oddly offering little advice on how to avoid similar situations. Felder and Victor provide a scoring system to help readers determine whether divorce is their only option, but it's inchoate. The book does contain good advice for conduct during divorce, again set off by a litany of tales showing what not to do. Finally, the authors discuss the legal side, from using a "crime of passion" defense to rules governing the determination of alimony benefits to prenuptial agreements (including how to broach the subject with a future spouse).