Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the 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 processlearn about different types of divorce, including mediated, collaborative, and contestedidentify and divide property and assets fairlywork with mediators or lawyersavoid expensive and painful court battlesestablish child custody and visitationhandle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforceddraft a marital settlement agreementdeal with divorce emergenciesaddress post-divorce issuesnegotiate and settle spousal support On every page, this book stresses the importance of minimizing conflict, explains complex legal problems concisely, and provides advice on how to protect your interests--with your dignity and sanity intact. Plus, easy-to-use charts make it simple to find the divorce laws in your state. This edition has updated laws for all 50 states and highlight some big changes in specific states--for example, the book explains California’s new rules about what constitutes a true separation. This edition also includes a discussion of Obergefell--the recent U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling and how it affects divorce laws on a national level. Read Less