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How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce

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Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce

Pub. Date: Nov 2006
Edition: 8th
Pages: 496 pp
ISBN: 9781413305227
Forms: 22 forms
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Summary

Everything you need to split assets and debts as fairly as possible.

When you're going through divorce, you have to make an overwhelming number of financial decisions. Should you sell the house? What happens to retirement benefits? How will you handle taxes?

Full of sensitive and practical advice, Divorce & Money guides you through the process of making these important decisions. It covers how to:

  • decide whether to keep or sell the house
  • protect yourself against misuse of joint accounts and credit cards
  • avoid tax problems
  • handle alimony and child support
  • divide debts fairly
  • avoid hasty decisions that could hurt you financially
  • reduce risks to your investments
  • understand how a court evaluates assets
  • gain financial stability as a single person

The 8th edition provides the latest tax figures and data, plus expanded coverage of debts and bankrutpcy.

Press Reviews

"An essential purchase for anyone contemplating a split, because financial decisions made during divorce can have such huge repercussions for both parties."
Los Angeles Times
"Organized like a workbook and written like an advice manual. It reduces the financial complications of divorce into comprehensible strategies."
Newsday
"Divorce & Money is precisely the right book to read to keep your property, your rights, plus your sanity during the trying weeks and months that follow divorce."
Steve Crowley,
host of “Your Money Report”
and author of Money For Life
"Woodhouse shares her expertise in financial decision making during divorce in her Nolo bestseller, Divorce & Money. "
Yahoo! Finance
"Violet P. Woodhouse [is] one of the leading authorities on divorce..."
Business Wire
"Focuses on issues which can trouble couples during the divorce process."
Orange County Register
Worth magazine named Violet Woodhouse among one of the nation's top 200 financial advisors in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Worth Magazine
"Lays out three options for allocating marital debt."
Motley Fool
"At the very least, you should read Divorce & Money so that you better understand your legal rights."
Liz Pulliam Weston,
Newark Star-Ledger

"An excellent book. I highly recommend it to every person who is contemplating divorce. The style is lively and engaging and the information is critical. The authors are to be congratulated."
Judith S. Wallerstein,
author of Second Chances: Men, Women
& Children a Decade After Divorce
"Covers the emotional as well as practical and legal aspects of financial matters involved in divorce."
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