Divorce After 50 - 6th Edition by Janice Green (Paperback)

About the Book

"This book is a road map for readers considering divorce later in life. It covers subjects such as: ways to divorce, including mediation, collaborative law, and litigation; marital property: what it is, what to do with it, and how to divide assets and liabilities; how to survive financially during and after, and more. The book also includes divorce survival stories that illustrate options and provide encouragement"--

Book Synopsis

A road map for complex 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 gives you the benefit of her decades of experience as a divorce lawyer who specialized in counseling and fighting for clients over 50. She addresses:

• divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce)


• how to receive the best guidance from lawyers and professional advisers


• dividing marital property legally and fairly


• retirement plan rules


• alimony, and


• keeping good health care.

The 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.

Review Quotes

Author's Comment Divorce is always a time of upheaval, but after age 50, it has a feel, context, and issues different from a marital disruption at a younger age. Having more years behind you than ahead changes one's focus and needs. Estate planning, financial planning, health care costs, mental capacity events, involvement of adult children, and more immediate retirement calculations are significant inquiries and concerns in an older divorce.

What prompted my writing Divorce After 50 was the fact that few divorce attorneys were paying attention to these relevant issues, and I wanted potential divorce clients to be effective self-advocates and consumers of legal services and be better prepared to make monumental decisions impacting the remainder of their lives.

"Silver winner Benjamin Franklin Award." Independent Book Publishers Association

"Dealing with Divorce after 50 -- health conditions, adult children, cheating and hidden assets! How aging affects your decisions." KGO TV - ABC 7 San Francisco, CA -The View from the Bay

"Nolo has been publishing excellent self-help legal manuals since 1971." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

"Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software." Los Angeles Times

"Green, a family law attorney, offers a guide for individuals getting divorced after age 50. She describes the role of lawyers, family members, children, and others, then divorce options, division of property, assets, debts and taxes, health care coverage, financial survival, estate planning issues, and the settlement agreement, ending with survival stories." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView