When you face a difficult situation or a tough fight, it helps to have a wise coach and an understanding friend in your corner. Family lawyer Marjorie Just, author of Divorce Decisions: Practical Ways to Protect Yourself, Your Career, Your Children and Your Wallet, offers both to anyone going through a divorce or termination of a domestic partnership.

During her more than 15 years in practice, the author has seen it all, from the most acrimonious courtroom battles to the most amicable settlements––and everything in between.But what makes this book so authentic is that the author has been through it herself.

“After watching my clients go through the pain and upheaval of divorce, I went through it myself, and made many of the same mistakes they did. Even though I should have known better,” says Marjorie Just of the Maryland-based firm, Offit Kurman.

Ms. Just explains that the decision to divorce is just the beginning of a series of important decisions for you and your family. Making these decisions with forethought and deliberation can help you avoid the pitfalls. Ms. Just offers legal insight and practical guidance.

“This is a useful and informative book. … Having the knowledge gleaned from a reading of this book equips that person with the tools necessary to navigate the often dangerous waters of separation and divorce. … The author has, with this book, provided a useful service and considerable help to an ever-increasing number of people.”
––Aaron Satloff, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, U. of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

Divorce Decisions provides a guidebook to the process including:

* Choosing a divorce process: negotiation or litigation, mediation or collaborative practice.
* Selecting a lawyer or representative.
* Minimizing emotional trauma for yourself and your children
* Saving money on legal fees
* Keeping the costs and the process from spiraling out of control
* Forming a support system
* How modern technology can play a role in divorce
* Preventing this from happening again.

"Reliable guidance about locating the skillful, reasonable lawyer who will aim toward durable long term solutions that benefit all members of the post-divorce family rather than the gladiator who fights without regard to financial, relational, and emotional costs is hard to find––or rather, has been hard to find, until Marjorie Just wrote this book."
--Pauline H. Tesler, Certified Specialist in Family Law, San Francisco, CA
Co-Author, Collaborative Divorce: The Revolutionary New Way to Restructure Your Family, Resolve Legal Issues, and Move on with Your Life and Co-Founder and first President, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals

MARJORIE JUST is a principal in the law firm of Offit/Kurman: Attorneys at Law, in Bethesda, Maryland, where she practices Family Law. She is a litigator, a mediator, and a Collaborative lawyer. Marjorie Just obtained undergraduate degree from Duke University and her JD from the George Washington University School of Law where she was a member of the Journal of International Law and Economics. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1994 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1995; and is a member of the Family Law Sections of the District of Columbia Bar, the Maryland State Bar Association and the Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland. Ms. Just is a founding member of the Collaborative Divorce Association and the Maryland Collaborative Practice Council. She acts as a court-appointed mediator in family law cases, and she volunteers as a Family Law Mentor for the DC Bar Law Firm Pro Bono Program. This is her first book.

“It's a tragic thing, but it happens. ‘Divorce Decisions: Practical Ways to Protect Yourself, Your Children, and Your Wallet’ is a legal resource for those facing divorce and want to approach it so that they come out as least injured, both monetarily and emotionally, as possible. With questions and answers to many conflicts such as custody battles, alimony, and more, "Divorce Decisions" is a complete and comprehensive resource that should not be overlooked for those facing these rough times.”   -- The Bookwatch, February 2010

“This is a useful and informative book. It is essentially a guidebook in which the author, Marjorie Just, an attorney, has delineated, in an understandable and clear manner, what a person going through separation and divorce is likely to confront. Having the knowledge gleaned from a reading of this book equips that person with the tools necessary to navigate the often dangerous waters of separation and divorce…The author has, with this book, provided a useful service and considerable help to an ever-increasing number of people.”   -- Aaron Satloff, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, August 2009

“Divorce Decisions gives answers to questions of enormous importance to people about to go through a divorce. The choice of which process to use in resolving divorce related conflict has ramifications for the parties and their children that can cascade down the generations, for better and also for worse. Reliable guidance about locating the skillful, reasonable lawyer who will aim toward durable long term solutions that benefit all members of the post-divorce family rather than the gladiator who fights without regard to financial, relational, and emotional costs is hard to find---or rather, has been hard to find, until Marjorie Just wrote this book.”   -- Pauline H. Tesler, Esq., Certified Specialist in Family Law, San Francisco, CA, August 2009