Divorcing: The Complete Guide for Men and Women - Softcover

Krantzler, Mel; Belli, Melvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312927444 ISBN 13: 9780312927448

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1992

Synopsis

In this unique, one-stop guide, the alternating voices of a lawyer and a psychologist reassuringly and clearly answer all the difficult questions you're facing-- emotional, legal and financial-- to help you keep the break-up of your marriage from taking its toll.

MEL KRANTZLER, Ph.D.
America's foremost divorce psychologist offers uplifting advice to bring you through the emotional turmoil of divorce. His compassionate techniques for dealing with stress, coping with estrangement from spouse and children, and forming new relationships will bring you to new levels of confidence and self-esteem.

MELVIN BELLI
The internationally acclaimed trial attorney gives you the same legal and financial counsel his famous clients pay thousands of dollars for. He translates intimidating legal jargon into everyday language and shows you how to become skillful in using the lawyer you've hired without spending more than you have to.

The modern classic, featured in Cosmopolitan, People, Harper's Bazaar, and Women's World Magazine.

Selected by the Psychotherapy and Social Science Book Club.

About this title

About the Author:

Melvin M. Belli, Sr., is one of the world's foremost trial attorneys. A graduate of the University of California's Boalt School of Law, Mr. Belli has made his international reputation with many famous cases and has earned the title "King of Torts." He has also worked on many divorce cases, including divorces of Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton, Martha and John Mitchell, Nick Nolte, and others. He is the author of sixty-two other books on the law, including, most recently, The Belli Files: Reflections on the Wayward Law; Everybody's Guide to the Law; and the five-volume revised edition of Modern Trials. Mr. Belli continues to make his home and practice law in San Francisco.

Psychologist Mel Krantzler, Ph.D., who is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), is internationally recognized as the outstanding authority on the psychology of divorce. He is the author of the best-selling Creative Divorce, which has sold more than two million copies since its first publication, as well as two other best-selling books: Creative Marriage and Learning to Love Again. Dr. Krantzler has been an innovator in teaching courses on divorce in colleges throughout the country, and in originating divorce group counseling; he is currently the director of the Creative Divorce, Love, and Marriage Counseling Center, located in San Rafael, California.

Christopher S. Taylor, an attorney with extensive experience in divorce and related areas of the law, lives in Oakland, California.

Review:

"With the high rate of divorce there is a desperate need for a book that is thoroughly comprehensive, caring, and compassionate, wise and practical. This is it."--Eda LeShan, author of What's Going to Happen to Me: When Parents Divorce and Separate

"An up book, long on optimism and hope."--Los Angeles Times

"Required reading for anyone contemplating a divorce...Readers needing sound, well written and practical advice will find it here."--Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312927444
• ISBN 13: 9780312927448
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 434