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

Violet Woodhouse CFP Attorney (Author), Dale Fetherling (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 7, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1413309186 | ISBN-13: 978-1413309188 | Edition: 9

Divorcing? Get 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, and sometimes life-altering 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 fully updated 9th edition provides the latest tax figures and data, plus an expanded checklist of necessary post-divorce actions. (20080202)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Anger and hurt tend to figure strongly in divorce, hand-in-hand with resentment, sadness, and fear about your future. And more often than not, these emotional woes all coalesce under the banner of money. Nolo Press is known for its thorough research and user-friendly approach to legal matters, and its book on Divorce and Money is up to its usual high standards of quality. "Think financially--act legally," the folks at Nolo say, and they explain how to do so, in detailed and practical terms, for joint accounts and hidden assets, gifts and insurance, alimony and retirement benefits, marital property and the IRS, net worth and what to do about the house. They also discuss where to seek professional help, how to keep proper records and assemble the facts, why the financial issues are so sticky, in what ways you're at risk, and how to reduce the stress and avoid the bad scenes, when possible. A life-saver of a reference book for when you're at your most vulnerable and disorganized, Divorce & Money offers practical and proactive advice to help you protect yourself and safeguard your financial future. --Stephanie Gold --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

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 20080202)

"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 20080202)

"Organized like a workbook and written like an advice manual. It reduces the financial complications of divorce into comprehensible strategies." (Newsday 20090101)

"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 20090101)

Violet P. Woodhouse [is] one of the leading authorities on divorce... (Business Wire 20090101)

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 20090101)

Lays out three options for allocating marital debt. (Motley Fool 20090101)

At the very least, you should read Divorce & Money so that you better understand your legal rights. (Liz Pulliam Weston Newark Star-Ledger 20090101)

Organized like a workbook and written like an advice manual. It reduces the financial complications of divorce into comprehensible strategies. (Newsday 20090101)

Focuses on issues which can trouble couples during the divorce process. (Orange County Register 20090101)

Covers the emotional as well as practical and legal aspects of financial matters involved in divorce. (Reference & Research Book News 20090101)

Worth magazine named Violet Woodhouse among one of the nation's top 200 financial advisors in 1996, 1997 and 1998. (Worth Magazine 20090101)

Woodhouse shares her expertise in financial decision making during divorce in her Nolo bestseller, Divorce & Money. (Yahoo! Finance )

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 )

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Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: NOLO; 9 edition (January 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413309186
• ISBN-13: 978-1413309188
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of them all, September 26, 2000

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Josephine (Tulsa, OK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Divorce and Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce (4th) (Paperback)

Divorce is about money, right? And this book will help you with all your financial questions regarding your budget, future planning, etc. And where has your spouse been hiding the money?? Find out! This book gives more tips on doing discovery than any other I've read. If you want a simpler book and want to let your attorney do everything (not recommended) try the Dollars and Sense of Divorce. But if you want the best reference there is, get Woodhouse's. I almost didn't get this one because of the price, but it's worth more than having 10 other books!

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BUY THIS BOOK, November 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Divorce and Money : How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce (Paperback)

Even though I have been separated a long while, I purchased my own copy of this book after browsing through a friends copy. It is truly a work of art. To me, it covers more than just money topics, but how to live through a very difficult time. It touches on so many areas, while always returning to the main topic of money. I really feel like the authors are talking to me, and not lecturing about facts and figures. A real user-friendly book! Forget emotions and get this book, even if you have to borrow the money!! You will get it back tenfold...

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My new favorite book!, July 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Divorce and Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce (Paperback)

Okay I might be exagerating but I did love this book. A friend recommended it after my husband and I decide to "part ways." I accidently picked up the other book with the same title and was not so thrilled with all the Get A Attorney advice, but then I realized my mistake and got this version -- it's SO helpful. It almost took me by the hand and showed me how to be less emotional than I would be when making decisions affecting how to split our property and bills up, and how to figure out child support.