Successful Divorce: An Eight-Step Manual
By Todd LaRoche
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This eight-step manual, when followed faithfully, can offer its reader a positive, even optimistic, attitude towards what can often be a debilitating experience. The pain and trauma that often accompany divorce may not be completely avoidable. But if you direct your actions with each of this manual's steps in mind, not only will the divorce process itself be less stressful, the outcome of your divorce will be as beneficial and as positive as can be hoped for.
Todd LaRoche
Todd LaRoche has lived through divorce and is the author of several works of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. He currently lives in upstate New York.
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Successful Divorce - Todd LaRoche
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
1) TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
2) KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
3) SELECT THE RIGHT LAWYER FOR YOU
4) DO YOUR HOMEWORK
5) BE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE
6) PROTECT ANY CHILDREN INVOLVED
7) DON’T SETTLE PREMATURELY
8) RECOGNIZE WHEN IT IS OVER
CONCLUSION
SOURCES OF
INFORMATION ON
DIVORCE
INTRODUCTION
If you are presently going through a divorce, or contemplating divorce, you are involved in one of the most emotionally and logistically trying processes that is part of society today. What follows is not a magic potion that will miraculously enable you to side step that process. Rather, it is a guide that can help you get through that process in a disciplined fashion. This eight-step manual, when followed faithfully, can offer its reader a positive, even optimistic, attitude towards what can often be a debilitating experience.
Of course, there is no foolproof way to have an easy divorce—there will always be a certain amount of pain, frustration and anger. It is important to realize, though, that all of these feelings are completely normal and natural to someone in the throes of divorce. They are emotions that should not be run from or shut off. In fact, it is healthier to vent