Review
Janet Johnston Executive Director, Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, and author of
In the Name of the Child Your Divorce Advisor, written by a seasoned lawyer-and-psychologist team, is a gem of a guidebook that empowers divorcing adults to take control of their own divorce -- legally, financially, and emotionally. It walks the reader through the divorce process, step by step. Vital information about financial matters and state-of-the-art research about the needs of children allow the reader to make constructive decisions for themselves and for their children, setting them on the pathway toward solutions that work for everybody involved. All of this is presented in a manner that is compassionate, sensible, and most comforting.
Nancy Dunnan author of
Dunnan's Guide to Your Investments, 2001 We know that divorce creates problems -- for the couple, their children, their family, their friends....Mercer and Pruett have done something other experts have failed to do: They have created rock-solid solutions based on their recognition that financial and legal decisions are inextricably influenced, even governed, by emotional feelings. The result: They offer a rare combination of legal, emotional, personal, and financial advice that makes this guidebook must reading, not only for anyone going through divorce but also for anyone knowing someone who is.
Forrest S. Mosten President, Mosten Mediation Centers
Your Divorce Advisor brilliantly and compassionately deals with the common challenges facing anyone going through a divorce. If your marriage is in trouble, you should buy
Your Divorce Advisor before you hire a lawyer. Lawyers and therapists should recommend
Your Divorce Advisor before the very first client meeting.
Louis Parley author of
The Ethical Family Lawyer Your Divorce Advisor is the most comprehensive divorce book on the market. It covers the legal issues extensively and is the only book to also tell you what you can expect to feel along the way. It offers an invaluable strategy for coping with the emotional demands of divorce, and has the best advice on talking with your kids about the divorce that I've read anywhere. It is the one book I will recommend to my divorcing clients.
From the Author
I first got the idea to write
Your Divorce Advisor when I went to the bookstore to find this book to buy in bulk and give to clients....and it didn't exist. Serving clients was the reason I went to law school, so I am always happy to hear from readers with feedback, and it also seemed like writing this book would help clients learn about the divorce legal process from start to finish before they started their divorce, rather than waiting for the end. Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D. was a colleague in New Haven, and we both understood that the emotional divorce is just as important--if not more important--thank the legal divorce. You didn't get married as a business deal, yet the legal system expects you to get diovrced as a business deal. So addressing both the legal and the emotional aspects of divorce was really important to me. Since writing Your Divorce Advisor I've stopped my litigation practice altogether and now only serve as a mediator. I founded Peace Talks Mediation Services in Los Angeles to help divorcing couples and separating parents navigate the emotional divorce right along with the legal divorce. I've also written a 2nd book, Making Divorce Work, about how to keep your divorce reasonably civil even when things aren't going too well.
