Best Divorce & Separation Family Law Books
Here you will get Best Divorce & Separation Family Law Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. BIFF for CoParent Communication: Your Guide to Difficult Texts, Emails, and Social Media Posts (Conflict Communication Series, 3)
Author: by Bill Eddy
English
246 pages
1950057100
“Coparenting is hard in any circumstance and when doing it with someone that has a high conflict personality, can seem impossible. The first step is to admit that you are outmatched in every way except for the ability to learn new skills related to the high conflict personality.
My life did not change until I began to read and understand and start using tools like BIFF. I couldn’t help my children because I couldn’t help myself and until I learned new tools, felt hopeless. Using BIFF will give you hope that change is possible.A.C., parent Use BIFF to Communicate with Your Ex’s Blaming, Accusing and Taunting Texts and Emails In divorce and co-parenting, not only do you need to deal with your own emotions, you may be faced with a daily barrage of hostile calls, texts, email, and social media blasts.
How can you regain a sense of control and peace for your own sake and for the kids? For more than a decade, the BIFF method of responding to hostile and misinforming emails, texts, and conversations has grown in use by thousands of people dealing with a difficult co-parent and with those who may have a high conflict personality, and it helps with those who don’t.
2. Healthy Relationships: Overcome Anxiety, Couple Conflicts, Insecurity and Depression without therapy. Stop Jealousy and Negative Thinking. Learn how to have a Happy Relationship with anyone.
Author: by Rachael Chapman
B08DBZDD6F
English
224 pages
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO GET OVER YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMSInterpersonal relationships aren’t easy, but sometimes they’re simpler than you think. Relationships make the world go around. For better or for worse. However, the exciting thing is that we can do much to increase our chances of having fulfilling and compelling relationships rich with meaning, joy, and love.
After one or two bad relationships, you may be left wondering if you even know what a healthy relationship is supposed to look like. You may be wondering if you even have the skills to be in a functional, respectful relationship.
In Healthy Relationships, you’ll learn what makes a relationship healthy as well as the steps you can take to build one of your own. From expressing affection to understanding the warning signs of mistrust and dysfunction, you’ll discover not only how to take care of your relationship but take care of yourself as well.
In addition, Healthy Relationships will help you to: Calm and even eliminate the concerns, fears, and uncertainties of others Overcome depression, anxiety, and insecurity in your relationships Increase feelings of love, respect, and appreciation in your relationships Quickly resolve and even prevent arguments Help others become open to your point of view Listen with greater empathy and understanding to what the other person is saying and feeling Engage in empathic dialogue to achieve mutual understanding Experience the power of showing gratitude and appreciationAnd so much more!
3. The FERSGUIDE Special Category Employees
Author: by Dan Jamison CPA
B08P4H7GFB
English
194 pages
Updated for 2021.There are two editions of The FERSGUIDE. This version is the correct version if you are a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO), Firefighter (FF), Customs and Border Protection Officer (CPBO), Border Patrol Agent (BPA), Air Traffic Controller (ATC), Nuclear Materials Courier, Diplomatic Security Service agent or other Special Category Employee covered by the special provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) granted to these employees.
If you are not a Special Category Employee, then you should be purchasing the FERSGUIDE for Regular FERS Employees. The FERSGUIDE is authored by Dan Jamison, CPA. Dan Jamison is a nationally recognized subject-matter expert on retirement benefits for federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, air traffic controllers and those persons covered under the Special Category Employee (SCE) Provisions.
Dan has been a CPA for over 30 years and holds active licenses in good standing in Virginia and Florida. Dan holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Florida and earned his undergraduate accounting degree there as well.
4. Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
Author: by Emily Doskow Attorney
NOLO
English
504 pages
Divorce guidance you can count on Divorce is never easy, but with the information in Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce, you can make the process as simple, inexpensive, and conflict-free as possible. With compassion and expertise, family law attorney Emily Doskow explains how to make divorce less painful by helping you: minimize day-to-day conflict with your spouse work with lawyers or mediators without breaking the bank avoid costly, exhausting court battles, and stay calm and make good decisions.
You’ll learn about your legal rights and options for resolving tough divorce-related issues, including: child support and custody alimony property division, and drafting a marital settlement agreement. The 8th edition is completely updated with the latest state rules on divorce, such as property division and grounds for divorce.
5. The High-Conflict Custody Battle: Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation
Author: by Amy J. L. Baker PhD
1626250731
New Harbinger Publications
English
Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law?You aren’t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today’s world.
So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to survive this difficult time and keep your kids safe? In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle.
If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.
Going through a divorce is hard, but going through a custody battle can feel like war. Don’t go in unprepared. With this book as your guide, you will be able to navigate this difficult process and learn powerful skills that will help you maintain a healthy relationship with your kids, fight unfair accusations, and uphold your rights as a parent.
6. Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges
Author: by Janice Green Attorney
NOLO
English
384 pages
A road map for late-life divorce Divorce can be devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for those who divorce later in life, with complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.
Attorney Janice Green brings over 40 years of experience as a divorce lawyer, and in particular, her skill in counseling clients over 50, to Divorce After 50. She addresses: divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce) how to receive the best guidance from lawyers and professional advisers dividing marital property fairly retirement plan rules alimony, and keeping good health care.
This award winner 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.
7. High Conflict People in Legal Disputes
Author: by Bill Eddy
Unhooked Books
English
277 pages
People with high conflict personalities (HCPs) clog our courts as plaintiffs with inappropriate claims against their personal “targets of blame,” and as defendants who have harmed others and need to be stopped. Everybody knows someone with a High Conflict Personality.
“How can he be so unreasonable?” “Why does she keep fighting? Can’t she see how destructive she is?” “Can you believe they’re going to court over _?”Some HCPs are more difficult than others, but they tend to share a similar preoccupation with blame that drives them into one dispute after anotherand keeps everyone perplexed about how to deal with them.
Using case examples and an analysis of the general litigation and negotiation behaviors of HCPs, this book helps make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits and complaints. It provides insight for containing their behavior while managing and/or resolving their disputes.
Characteristics of the five “high-conflict” personality disorders are explored:BorderlineNarcissistic Histrionic ParanoidAntisocialBill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator, and President of the High Conflict Institute. He developed the “High Conflict Personality” theory and is an international expert on the subject.
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ANXIETY IN RELATIONSHIP: How to overcome anxiety, jealousy, negative thinking and manage insecurity and attachement. Learn how to eliminate couple conflicts to establish better relationships
Author: by Melanie White
B0884CRR9H
English
227 pages
Are you looking for a solution to anxiety in your relationship? Are you unable to live your romantic relationship without doubts or insecurities? Are you a slave to jealousy or are terrified of abandonment? If you answered YES to these questions and wish to live a better relationship, then keep reading …
Anxiety is a normal human condition and is a necessary part of our lives. We all have a trait of anxiety in one way or another. In “fight or flight mode,” fear allows us to recognize and respond to hazards.
Anxiety will work either for us or against us. It’s something that we all share, but it varies from person to person. And what about couples? In the early stages of a relationship, people may get feelings of insecurity, which leads to more anxiety.
You may experience worrying thoughts such as, Does this person really like me? How serious is this relationship?Will it work out? On a certain level, consciously or unconsciously, we all fear being hurt. Ironically, this fear tends to increase when we are getting what we want.
9. Surviving Parental Alienation
Author: by Amy Baker
Rl (June 30, 2017)
English
184 pages
Surviving Parental Alienation provides parents who have been ostracized from their children with understanding and validation through personal accounts and expert analysis. Offering insight and advice, the authors guide the targeted parent through the issues and challenges and help them better manage their experiences.
10. Overcoming the Co-Parenting Trap: Essential Parenting Skills When a Child Resists a Parent
Author: by John A. Moran Ph.D.
Overcoming Barriers Inc.
English
94 pages
Hard-hitting divorce lawyer James Sexton shares his insights and wisdom from the front lines of divorce to keep you out of his office and improve your relationship. If You’re in My Office, It’s Already Too Late. James Sexton knows this.
After dealing with more than a thousand clients whose marriages have dissolved over everything from an ill-advised threesome with the nanny to the uneven division of carpool duties, he also knows all of the what-not-to-dos for couples who want to buildand consistently work to preservea lasting, fulfilling relationship.
Described by former clients as a courtroom gunslinger and the sociopath you want on your side, Sexton tells the unvarnished truth about relationships, diving straight into the most common marital problems. These usually derive from dishonestor nonexistentcommunication. Even when the alleged reason for separation is one spouse’s new personal trainer, there’s likely a communication problem that predates the fitness kick.
Symptom and root cause get confused all the time. Sexton has spent his career working with spouses-to-be-no-longer. Reverse engineering a relationship can help to identify and fix what does not work. Ever feel like you’re holding back criticism of your spouse because you just can’t have that fight right now?
12. Overcoming the Alienation Crisis: 33 Coparenting Solutions
Author: by John A Moran Ph.D.
English
188 pages
1735099406
If you’ve given up on achieving coparenting coordination and cooperation, this book offers help and hope for moving forward with less conflict for the sake of your children. Overcoming the Alienation Crisis is a must-have resource for professionals and parents wanting to restore parent-child relationships.
Psychologists Moran, McCall, and Sullivan present a balanced view of alienation, coparenting conflict dynamics, and parent-child resist refuse problems. Drawing on decades of experience as clinical forensic experts with family court cases, they drill down into the everyday challenges and dilemmas parents face when a child resists or refuses contact with a parent.
Coparents who feel like they have been fighting a hopeless war will discover new understandings about why parent-child contact problems are so difficult to resolve. Frustrating yet all-too-common coparenting situations and predicaments are presented in a Q&A format, and hands-on solutions, tips, and strategies (33 of them!
13. The FERSGUIDE
Author: by Dan Jamison CPA
B08P8D7676
English
177 pages
UPDATED for 2021.There are two editions of the FERSGUIDE. This version is the correct version if you are a Regular FERS participant. If you are a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO), Firefighter (FF), Customs and Border Protection Officer (CPBO), Border Patrol Agent (BPA), Air Traffic Controller (ATC), Nuclear Materials Courier, Diplomatic Security Service agent or other Special Category Employee covered by the special provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) granted to these employees, then you should be purchasing the FERSGUIDE for Special Category Employees.
The FERSGUIDE is authored by Dan Jamison, CPA. Dan Jamison is a nationally recognized subject-matter expert on retirement benefits for federal employees and annuitants. Dan has been a CPA for over 30 years and holds active licenses in good standing in Virginia and Florida.
Dan holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Florida and earned his undergraduate accounting degree there as well. Dan retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2013 after 21 years as a Special Agent Accountant. Dan started writing the FERSGUIDE over 20 years ago, when the document lurked around only in the FBI’s email system until the advent of the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) and then the FERSGUIDE spread from the JTTFs to the participating JTTF agencies where it quickly gained popularity outside of the FBI.
14. Reunification Family Therapy: A Treatment Manual
Author: by Jan Faust
Hogrefe Publishing
English
148 pages
A unique, evidence-based treatment manual for repairing parent child relationships Childhood problems are often related to and worsened by the disintegration of the family structure, whether through parental separation and divorce, military service, or incarceration. Reunification therapy is a therapeutic process incorporating different empirically based methods (CBT, humanistic, and systemic) to help repair relationships between parents and children and restore not only physical contact but also meaningful social, emotional, and interpersonal exchanges between parents and children.
This unique manual, bringing together the vast experience of the author, outlines the many situations numerous families currently face and why the need for reunification therapy exists. The therapist works firstly with the individual family members and then with all the family in conjoint sessions.
The manual expertly guides clinicians through pretreatment decisions and processes to enable them to decide where, when, and in what form reunification therapy is appropriate, taking into account ethical, legal and special family issues. Detailed chapters outline the structure and issues for the individual and conjoint sessions, as well as a step-by-step treatment plan template.
15. The Parallel Parenting Solution: Eliminate Confict With Your Ex, Create The Life You Want
Author: by Carl Knickerbocker
B097Z5QLGB
June 24, 2021
English
“I could not stop reading and highlighting! Thank you for writing it! Finally someone that understands and gets that it is impossible to coparent with a high conflict person!” -L. Deshea”This information was liberting to hear… This is exactly what I am and have been going through.
I have purchased your book on Amazon and started reading it. I want to offer a sincere thank you… I am learning a lot about aligning myself with the parallel parenting ideal. Thank you for your posts and for your book.
It has truly changed my life.” -S. Delgado”Thank you for writing this book. It is good to not only know that I am not alone in this, but to have a safe, healthy plan for my son and myself moving forward.” -J.
Dillard”I want to see these changes for all families in my lifetime!” -A. Ngyen The Parallel Parenting Solution was written for people who want to eliminate the unnecessary drama of Coparenting with a high-conflict exparticularly in the wake of a hard-fought divorce battle.
16. The Military Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide to Representing Military Personnel and Their Families
Author: by Mark E. Sullivan
American Bar Association
English
1270 pages
When a divorce action involves a military client, many special issues make these cases more difficult to handle. This definitive, two-volume resource guides you through the complexities of all aspects of representing military personnel or their spouses to help you provide competent and thorough representation for your client.
Key chapters explain the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), military tax issues, and the important issue of dividing military retirement benefits. The book also covers the difficult and increasingly important issues of custody and domestic violence involving servicemembers. Explaining complex issues in clear, current and concise language, author Mark E.
Sullivan provides numerous Practice Tips throughout the text to make your practice easier and more efficient. Relevant appendices are included at the end of the chapter, and in this two-volume edition, hundreds of additional pages of additional forms and supplementary materials are available to readers online.
