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5 Questions You Must Ask When Getting
Divorced
What
could be more important when getting divorced than to reduce as much as
possible the emotional pain, expense and damage to your self-esteem and to your
children?
How to Do Your Own Divorce in California by Ed Sherman, award-winning author, family law
attorney, and founder of Nolo Press, shows you how to do just that in an
easy-to-understand format that provides a complete kit for an uncontested
divorce. Written in plain English with
explanations of procedures, practical advice and step-by-step instructions,
this book has helped Californians save billions
of dollars in legal fees since the first edition was published more than 30
years ago. The 29thth
edition updated for 2006 reveals the answers to the following five questions you must
ask if you want your divorce to go as smoothly and easily as possible.
1.
Can you do your own divorce? Yes, you can. Since How to Do Your Own Divorce in
California was
first published, millions of Californians just like you have done their own
divorces without retaining lawyers, so you can almost certainly do it too.
2. Should you do your own divorce? Yes, you should do your own divorce. Most people would be better off if they
didn’t retain an attorney unless they have a very clear reason for doing
so. The legal process—and the way
attorneys are trained to work in it—tends to cause trouble, raise the level of
conflict, and greatly
increase your expense.
3. What does it mean to do your
own divorce? Doing your own divorce is much
more than just filling out forms and getting your spouse to sign an
agreement. It is about thinking things out,
solving problems, and making sound decisions, in depth and detail. Given the nature of divorce, it is
understandable that you may
be reluctant to talk things over with
your partner, but this is something you must do if you don’t want to become a
victim of divorce.
4.
What
does it mean to retain an attorney? You are literally handing
over your own power and authority to act.
The attorney takes professional responsibility to act on your behalf,
and standards of professional conduct require any attorney who represents you,
even one with a good attitude, to act in ways that will complicate your case
and make it worse instead of better.
5. What are the advantages of
doing your own divorce? Studies show that active
participation in your divorce is the single most important factor in getting a
good divorce, including better compliance with agreements and orders after
divorce, less post-divorce conflict and litigation, more good will, and better
co-parenting. Also, it is much
cheaper. When attorneys take your case,
the cost can easily be from $30,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars for the
divorce. If you work together and do it
yourself, your total costs will be less than $500 each.
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ISBN
0-944508-59-6 Title:
How to Do Your Own Divorce in California Author: Ed Sherman,
Divorce Specialist Attorney 256 pages, Trade Paperback + CD-ROM Price: $29.95 Contact: Sandra Borland, (800) 464-5502 Email: sandra@nolotech.com Nolo
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