Product Description

This book provides revolutionary new recipes for dividing the divorce pie. Whether you've been stunned by your spouse's divorce atomic bombshell or have dropped one yourself, you must avoid its potentially fatal financial fallout. "The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Financial Security When Getting a Divorce" helps both men and women survive economically, and ultimately thrive, with actionable how-to instructions and explanations such as: learn why an even split now is often anything but equitable later, and how to base a fair settlement on cash-flow and net-worth projections appropriate to your marriage's 'economic history'; and find out when and why mediation or arbitration, mostly do-it-yourself, or the new 'collaborative-attorneys divorce' are preferable to traditional adversarial-attorney divorce, as well as determine needs for other specialized professional advice.Construct sold financial-action plans - for before, during and after the divorce - that control expenses and use optimal tax planning to preserve the maximum marital assets. Understand complex property and support issues such as commingled funds, both spouses' rights to pensions and social security, business valuation, creative management of the marital home, and front-loaded spousal support.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324414 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Back Cover

Revolutionary new recipes for dividing the divorce pie

Whether you've been stunned by your spouse's divorce atomic bombshell or have dropped one yourself, you must avoid its potentially fatal financial fallout. The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Financial Security When Getting a Divorce helps both men and women survive economically, and ultimately thrive, with actionable how-to instructions and explanations such as:

• Learn why an even split now is often anything but equitable later, and how to base a fair settlement on cash-flow and net-worth projections appropriate to your marriage's "economic history."
• Find out when and why mediation or arbitration, mostly do-it-yourself, or the new "collaborative-attorneys divorce" are preferable to traditional adversarial-attorney divorce, as well as determine needs for other specialized professional advice.
• Construct sold financial-action plans--for before, during and after the divorce--that control expenses and use optimal tax planning to preserve the maximum marital assets.
• Understand complex property and support issues such as commingled funds, both spouses' rights to pensions and social security, business valuation, creative management of the marital home, and front-loaded spousal support.

About the Author

Alan Feigenbaum, C.F.P. (Chapel Hill, NC) has written regular columns and features for Bloomberg Wealth Manager, CBS Market- Watch, Worth Interactive and Raging Bull.

Heather Linton, C.P.A., C.F.P. (Chapel Hill, NC) is a certified divorce planner with 10 years of experience.

Customer Reviews

USA not UK
The book is USA-centric so of less value in the UK. There is some good general advice, but much of that is commonsense. If I'd seen it while browsing in a bookshop I wouldn't have bought it.

Not worth the cost for UK readers.

I agree
I agree fully with the above review and I am very dissappointed that it is not stated clearly at the top of the description that this is american based. Wish I had read the above review first!

check before you buy
Firstly- this is an American book so much of it is not relevant if you are living in uk.
Secondly- it is heavily against divorce. well, who isn't. BUT if you have been in an intolerable set-up & have been through hell to get the first step out of it- it is dispiriting and upsetting to have a book lecture you that you should make more effort to stay.
That being said- I haven't read the rest of the book because of the USA / UK thing, so maybe it's great.