Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal & Financial Challenges - Softcover

Green, Janice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413322271 ISBN 13: 9781413322279

Publisher: Nolo, 2016

Synopsis

A road map for late-life divorce

Divorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.

Attorney Janice Green brings 30-plus years of experience as a divorce lawyer, and in particular her experience counseling clients over 50, to Divorce After 50. She addresses:

• Divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce)
• How to receive the best guidance from lawyersand professional advisers
• Dividing marital property fairly
• Retirement plan rules
• Spousal support (alimony)
• How divorce affects estate planning
• Keeping good health care (updated to include new rules under the Affordable Care Act)

The book also includes divorce survival stories that illustrate your options and provide encouragement. They got through it, and with the help of Divorce After 50, you can, too.

About this title

Book Description

Today, 1 in 4 people going through a divorce are over 50. Over-50 divorces can be more financially burdensome because they usually involve alimony, retirement, health insurance, and Social Security benefits – this book covers all these issues and more.

About the Author

Attorney Janice L. Green has practiced family law for more than 30 years. She is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, named to Best Lawyers in America, and a Texas Monthly Super Lawyer. Ms. Green writes and speaks on Divorce and “Gray Divorce” issues. She has been interviewed and quoted in numerous national and online publications, including The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Kiplinger's Retirement Report, Bottom Line, AARP Bulletin, Consumer Report--Personal and many other national print and online publications. Ms. Green has also appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show and Talk of the Nation, Huffington Post's "Live" and on ABC's top rated show, "View from the Bay."

Edition details

• Publisher: Nolo
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1413322271
• ISBN 13: 9781413322279
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 377