Your Divorce Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

Are you unhappy—uncertain whether your marriage has ended or still can be saved? Confused about what steps to take next? Will you mediate? Collaborate? Litigate? Do you fear making a horrible mistake? Are you terrified you might start a war with your spouse? Are you worried divorce will impoverish you? Do you wish to project the best version of yourself as you proceed?

In Own Your Own Divorce, you will learn how to navigate the legal maze of separation and divorce with cooperation, compassion, kindness, and clarity.

Key benefits of reading Own Your Own Divorce:

• You will learn the truth: You will uncover the hidden strategies unscrupulous lawyers use to prolong divorce proceedings, aggravate family conflicts, and line their pockets with your money.
• Take control: Learn how to shift control of the divorce process to yourselves, so you can shape favorable postdivorce outcomes.
• Minimize conflict: Execute practical strategies that reduce tension, diminish hostility, and foster cooperation.
• Save money: Identify how to significantly reduce legal fees and other expenses associated with divorce.
• Preserve relationships: Discover how to maintain respect and affection for your spouse, even after divorce.

Stop fighting. Stop paying inflated fees. It’s time to reclaim your divorce from the Divorce Industrial Complex and create a future filled with enhanced respect, closure, understanding, and peace.

Commence with Kindness. Be your best self always. Finish with kindness. Follow this guidance whether your partner reciprocates in kind or not. Why? You will reencounter the essence of your authentic self. You will manage one of life’s most challenging passages with grace and integrity.

This is how you design and realize the best possible divorce for yourself and your family. This is how you return home.

Laurence Wilson, JD, AAML, has been a practicing divorce lawyer, mediator, collaborative attorney, private judge, and superior court judge pro tempore in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1975. During that time, he has helped more than 4,000 couples with their divorces.

Larry was elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in the early 1980s, cofounded San Francisco’s first collaborative divorce group in the early 1990s, and has been selected as a Northern California Family Law Super Lawyer every year since 2006. He has written and presented specialty continuing education family law programs to countless California divorce lawyers for more than four decades.

Larry and his wife, Morli, married for forty-eight years, live in Northern California.

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