The Complete Guide to Divorce Practice: Forms and Procedures for the Lawyer, Fifth Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634258150 ISBN 13: 9781634258159

Publisher: American Bar Association, 2017

Synopsis

Whether you're just starting out or want to build up your document library, this proven system is a winning strategy for your family law practice. This complete divorce practice system can easily be customized to fit your jurisdiction and the way you handle cases, providing over 500 documents to efficiently take clients through every step of the divorce practice.

This book is easy to use. It is arranged in the natural order of the divorce experience. Starting with clients, it follows through the interview, proceeds through discovery, negotiations, mediation, trial and ends with prenuptial agreements.

Content includes forms, checklists, worksheets, formal motions, orders, pleadings, agreements, and letters in the following areas:

• Law Office Management
• Clients
• Client Interview
• Complaints
• Discovery
• Marital Dissolution Agreement
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Trial
• Final Decree
• Motions
• Petitions
• Consent Orders
• Orders
• Miscellaneous Pleadings
• Letters
• Pre and Post-Marital Agreements

About this title

About the Author

Larry Rice, known formally as George Lawrence Rice, III, is the senior partner at Rice, Amundsen & Caperton, PLLC in Memphis, Tennessee. This firm was selected as the Best Law Firm by The Commercial Appeal. Larry is certified as a Family Law Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and certified as a Family Law Specialist by the Tennessee Board of Specialization.

He has earned the distinction of being named a Mid-South Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers every year since 2008 and has been rated a Superb Attorney by Avvo every year since 2011, with a score of 10 out of a possible 10.

Larry received the Top 10 Attorney Award for Tennessee from the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys. He also received the Client Satisfaction Award from the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys and was recognized as The Face of Divorce Law, with his son Nick, by Memphis Magazine.

Widely recognized as the best CLE speaker on divorce practice, Larry has lectured at more than a dozen American Bar Association conventions and to lawyers from Massachusetts to Hawaii and Canada to the Caribbean, on topics ranging from Law Office Management to Ethics to Trial Practice.

He is the author of several articles and books including: Divorce Practice in Tennessee; The Effective Ethical Lawyer, and The Complete Guide to Divorce Practice, Forms and Procedures for Lawyers, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th (25th Anniversary) Editions.

Larry was the founding Chairperson of the Divorce and Family Law Section of the Memphis Bar Association and co-founder of the Family Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association.
Mr. Rice holds a B.A. in communication arts and history, was a British Studies student at University College, Oxford, England, and completed the American Trial Lawyer Association National College of Advocacy.

Nick Rice, known formally as George Lawrence Rice, IV, is a third generation attorney following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father.Mr. Rice first started studying the law when he began working for the firm in seventh grade. He graduated Christian Brothers High School where he served 4 years on Honor Council.

Mr. Rice graduated from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2000. He returned to Memphis to attend law school and continued working at the firm. Mr. Rice received his J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2003.

Because of his extensive training, he practiced law immediately after passing the bar. Following in his father’s footsteps, he has also presented Continuing Legal Education lectures. He is widely considered to be the best young divorce lawyer.

In 2001 Mr. Rice, with the help of two friends, founded a yearly charitable fund raiser. It has distributed grants to several local charities.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Bar Association
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1634258150
• ISBN 13: 9781634258159
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1148
• Editor: Rice Larry, Rice Nick