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Table of Contents
Introduction

Part 1: Trouble in Paradise
What To Do First When Things Start to Go Wrong, Getting Smart about Your Family's Money Matters, Family Law Basics, Divorce Law Basic, Separation: A Healthy Breather or a Prelude to Divorce?

Part Two: Divorce Preliminaries
Putting Your Divorce in Motion, Helping Your Kids get through Your Divorce, Taking Care of Your Emotional Self

Part Three: Decisions, Decisions
Your, Mine, or Ours? Diving Up What you Own, Alimony: Determining When How It's Paid, Custody: Deciding in Your Children's Best Interest, Child Support: Providing Your Kids with the Necessities

Part Four: Working Out the Terms of Your Divorce Agreement
Doing (Some of) the Negotiating Yourself, Hiring a Divorce Attorney, Helping your Attorney to Get the Best Results Possible, Using Mediation to Avoid a Divorce Trial, The Divorce Trial: Putting the Decisions in the Hands of a Judge

Part Five: After Your Divorce IS Finalized
Handling the Practical Matters of Life after Divorce, The Toughest Post-Divorce Problems (And How To Solve Them), Thinking Ahead: Prenuptial; and Postnuptial Agreements

Part Six: The Part of Tens
Ten Great Divorce Web Sites, Ten Ways to Help make Everything Okay for Your Kids, Ten Tips for Putting Your Divorce behind You and Moving On, Ten Strategies for Next Time to Keep Divorce at Bay

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