Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges - Softcover

"Dealing with Divorce after 50 -- health conditions, adult children, cheating and hidden assets! How aging affects your decisions." KGO TV - ABC 7 San Francisco, CA -The View from the Bay "Nolo has been publishing excellent self-help legal manuals since 1971." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine "Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software." Los Angeles Times "Green, a family law attorney, offers a guide for individuals getting divorced after age 50. She describes the role of lawyers, family members, children, and others, then divorce options, division of property, assets, debts and taxes, health care coverage, financial survival, estate planning issues, and the settlement agreement, ending with survival stories." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView

A road map for late-life divorce

Divorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.

Attorney Janice Green brings 30-plus years of experience as a divorce lawyer, and in particular her experience counseling clients over 50, to Divorce After 50. She addresses:

· Divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce)
· How to receive the best guidance from lawyersand professional advisers
· Dividing marital property fairly
· Retirement plan rules
· Spousal support (alimony)
· How divorce affects estate planning
· Keeping good health care (updated to include new rules under the Affordable Care Act)

The book also includes divorce survival stories that illustrate your options and provide encouragement. They got through it, and with the help of Divorce After 50, you can, too.