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Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"This book guides the reader through all the steps of negotiating a divorce settlement, using mediation or collaborative law. It explains mediation and collaborative divorce and shows you how to choose the right method for your family; maximize opportunities for settlement; get an agreement in writing; find mediators, attorneys, and advisers, and protect your children first, last, and always. It also provides state court website information, contact...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will learn how to complete their own divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers: Understand the divorce process ; Learn about different types of divorce, including...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"About 50 percent of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. Just because parents split up, however, doesn't mean the family is broken. No matter the reason for the divorce, children's lives will be different. This book empathetically presents children with new ways of thinking about life during and after their parents' divorce, help in vocalizing and working through their feelings and emotions, and useful tools to help them thrive in their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A time to think about lives lived, choices made.A time for friends...Every week, four women have an unmissable appointment in their calendars: they meet for breakfast.
Clare has just been through a devastating divorce. She's driven by anger and revenge—until she learns something that forces her to question her own actions and to look deep inside for the person she used to be.
Elizabeth...
Clare has just been through a devastating divorce. She's driven by anger and revenge—until she learns something that forces her to question her own actions and to look deep inside for the person she used to be.
Elizabeth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Explains what happens when parents divorce and how children can adjust to the changes divorce brings. Offers tips for coping with emotions and the changes living in two households can bring.
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through accessible and relatable text, readers are exposed to what it's like to live with a single parent. Topics such as single parenting, separation, and divorce must be handled with care, and this volume addresses these issues with sensitivity and compassion. Readers expand their knowledge of social issues and are made aware of how to handle possible changes in a family dynamic. Full-color photographs, scrapbook-inspired design elements, and fact...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her husband of 20 years left, Brandi Wilson's life and dreams shattered. Now a ministry leader and life coach, she tenderly and vulnerably shares her story, helping you confront the grief and heartache of divorce head-on. Through God's grace, you can endure the darkest seasons, grow from the pain, and find hope for renewed joy, peace, and redemption"--
8) Strider
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
Author
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Parents going through separation or divorce are understandably worried about how the change in the family will affect their children. Psychologist Dr. Jann Blackstone and pediatrician Dr. David Hill help parents shepherd their children through divorce with expertise built from decades of professional practice and sensitivity developed from their own experiences as parents who are themselves divorced and actively co-parenting with exes. Their guide...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Close to 50 percent of marriages in America fail, leading to about 1.5 million divorces a year. But for Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell, who've been there and done that, there's no comfort in statics, only community. Community is the one thing that can turn the shattering experience of divorce into a tolerable one-and, finally, a positive one. And community is what the authors offer in their inspiring and brilliantly helpful book, The Optimist's Guide...
13) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 4
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody of her.
15) Facing divorce
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will learn how to cope with divorce. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Grow with Goals and Try This! activities further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about coping with divorce. Also includes sidebars, a table of contents, glossary, index, and tips for educators and caregivers"--
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing career and at times negative public perception....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job...
20) The stepsisters
Author
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts - she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters' rivalry continued until the final,...