Divorce is the biggest single business deal most Texans will ever undertake. This comprehensive updated book is designed to help couples retain their assets when they divorce-from spouses who split household items to married business partners who divide large, privately held companies-and emerge from divorce financially intact no matter how difficult the economic landscape. The authors provide expertise in financial planning, estate planning, retirement issues, counseling, real estate, business valuation, taxes, insurance, bankruptcy and other areas affecting the financial future of divorcing Texans.What You Can Learn From This Book* How to organize a winning case * How to calculate child support * How to get the most out of your house * What to do with a family business * Who gets retirement accounts, stock options, personal property * When to choose a collaborative law divorce * How to use mediation * How to enforce the divorce decree

Attorney Mintz describes the latest strategies for insulating and shielding assets from potential lawsuit liability. Detailed examples, diagrams, and real life case studies are provided for using Family Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, Asset Protection Trusts, and creative privacy plans.

Written by a recognized expert on community property and family law issues in California, Grace Ganz Blumberg’s comprehensive casebook prepares students for the California bar examination and equips them for California practice in the areas of divorce, decedents’ estates, and debtor-creditor law. Community Property in Californiacarefully balances cases, notes, questions, and problems for student comprehension. Because community property is a relatively narrow subject involving the interplay of state legislation and case law, the casebook is structured to encourage students to develop and refine their analytic skills and to enable professors to guide their students in doing so. Comparative text puts California law into context by including references to sister-state law, the Uniform Marital Property Act and the marital property chapter of the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. New to the 8th Edition: The California Supreme Court’s 2020 decision, In re Brace, which upended almost a century of community property law, leaving many unresolved questions in its wake. Critical notes on the origins and subsequent development of the Pereira/Van Camp business apportionment doctrine. Further treatment of the Family Code section 4 rule requiring that current family law be applied to events occurring before its effective date, with particular attention to the enforceability of premarital agreements entered under prior law. Professors and students will benefit from: Problems and questions for stimulating class discussion Thorough preparation for the community property essay question on the California bar examination A casebook that students enjoy reading A focus on enhanced lawyering skills, with emphasis on problem solving

Two Adventures With Mom and Dad is a children's book about divorce. The book introduces young children to the concept of divorce and separation. The author, family law attorney Kelly Chang Rickert, and illustrator Tanya Campbell encourages separating parents to read this book together to their child.

It's Hope's first Christmas after her parents' divorce. Helping her Dad decorate for Christmas this year, Hope finds a broken snow globe. She recalls the shouting and yelling shortly after she broke the snow globe last year. Hope is convinced that she can bring her parents back together if only she can repair the snowglobe. In the end, her courageous efforts at repairing the broken snowglobe helped her achieve acceptance of her new family arrangement. Holidays after divorce or separation can be very hard on children. This book was written for them. The story is intended to reassure them that none of this is their fault, and though there may be different living arrangements, both Mom and Dad still love them, and always will.

Excerpt from Community Property Laws: With Translations of the Commentaries Thereon of Matienzo, Azevedo and Guttierez All debts contracted by husband and wife, being com mon, moreover let them pay as one and if before union in marriage either of them contracted a debt, let that one pay it and the other shall not be held to pay it from his estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.