Divorce with Decency
xx PrefACe I feel that maintaining a light and upbeat (maybe even offbeat) touch in divorce cases ultimately serves to improve t ...
xxi Acknowledgments Lots of folks deserve lots of credit for helping to midwife this book from its early days of conception and ...
law firm, my close personal friend and successor as Managing Attorney Greg Frey, to our incredibly efficient law office manager, ...
1 ChAPtEr 1 The Need for Divorce with Decency Nothing anybody tells you about marriage helps. —Max Siegel The very manner in whi ...
2 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY Doris who had just come home, totally without warning, to a completely vacant house. Distraught Doris and ...
The Need for Divorce with Decency 3 objective that is frequently at the forefront of the initiating party’s mind, but is not alw ...
4 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY Hawai‘i has also adopted a property division statute that requires “equitable distribution.” Rather than ...
5 ChAPtEr 2 Some Basic Background Marriage... a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. —Ambrose Bierce Over the ...
6 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY become another such milestone—with people referring to their lives as either “BS” (Before the Split) or “ ...
Some Basic Background 7 economic phenomenon of the very poor. The big change that seems to have occurred nowadays is that divorc ...
8 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY stability between 1990 and 2000, the population of divorced senior citizens rose 34 percent (to 2.2 milli ...
Some Basic Background 9 residents—fell steadily from 10.5 in 1980 to 9.0 in 1993. Similarly, the divorce rate—the number of divo ...
10 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY Sigmund Freud flatly declared that “marriage is not an arrange- ment calculated to satisfy a man’s sexua ...
Some Basic Background 11 between jobs, cities, and midlife crises. If our mate fails to keep up intellectually, physically, or s ...
12 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY number of households with unmarried adults and no kids has doubled within the last twenty-five years. Ex ...
Some Basic Background 13 keep the costs down, or to avoid the extra stress of a prolonged fight over the kids, etc.). The remain ...
14 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY largely to the relatively new phenomenon of multiple serial mar- riages. Obviously, when you’ve got ever ...
Some Basic Background 15 true that folks who are currently married report slightly higher levels of happiness than do single peo ...
16 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY There have always been obvious high-risk candidates for early divorce (i.e., couples who married too you ...
Some Basic Background 17 live in blended families with stepparents and/or stepsiblings. Fully one-third of all American kids wil ...
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