Joint Custody With A Jerk: Raising a Child with

an Uncooperative Ex, A Hands on, practical

guide to coping with custody issues that arise

with an uncooperative ex-spouse

By Julia A. Ross, Judy Corcoran   $10.47

Joint Custody With a Jerk deals with the topic on how to raise your child successfully under a joint custody order.  If you are dealing with a difficult ex husband or ex wife Joint Custody with a Jerk can provide you with many communication tips that will help you deal with common problems after your divorce.

What Every Woman Should Know About

Divorce and Custody: Judges, Lawyers, and

Therapists Share Winning Strategies on How

to Keep the Kids, the Cash, and Your Sanity

By Gayle Rosenwald Smith   $10.47

This book answers all the tough questions you might have to face about how the divorce laws can work to protect you and what to expect while going through a child custody battle.  For example, "Should I make a deal--and accept less child support--in order to keep my son?"  This insider’s guide will provide you with all the divorce advice you will need from judges, lawyers, therapists and other mothers who have been through a child custody case.  No matter what stage of the divorce process you are in, this book will cover many legal, financial and psychological issues.  You will also find an appendix of other helpful readings.  Some of the topics included are, choosing a lawyer,  divorce mediations vs. courtroom trials, what to expect before and in court, blended families, domestic violence, risk factors for women, what makes a child custody agreement good or bad, dealing with your emotions, parental kidnapping possibilities, hot button issues, mothers and money.

Fathers' Rights: Hard-Hitting & Fair Advice

for Every Father Involved in a Custody Dispute

By Jeffery M. Leving   $11.20

Fathers’ Rights deals with the reality of fathers fighting for custody of their children and how the legal system usually will deny them their rights.  This book will provide you with the divorce advice and child custody advice to proceed through the most challenging process of your life.  You will find advice to cover all aspects of the child custody process including, but not limited to, protecting the parent/child relationship as a breakup occurs; determining when to settle and when to litigate; techniques for dealing effectively with psychologists, social workers, and other domestic relations experts.  Real life examples are also highlighted in the attempt to spare you pain and many of your divorce dollars.

Custody Chaos, Personal Peace: Sharing

Custody With an Ex Who's Driving You Crazy

By Jeffrey P. Wittmann, Ph.D.   $11.17

From the mouth of family therapist and divorce mediator comes Custody Chaos.  This book attempts to provide divorce advice for the couples who have split up on the worst of terms when children are involved.  IF you’re trying to maintain a healthy atmosphere for your child after divorce this book will provide you with the divorce help you need.  You will find divorce help and advice on such topics as, The 7 strategies for peace when an ex refuses to change, skills for taming former in-laws, ways to help children cope with a difficult parent, strategies and alternatives for focusing anger, how to avoid hot-button issues, how to nudge an ex to change for the better, ways to deal with children's questions and confusion, the new partner's role in the old partner's shadow.

The Child Custody Book: How to Protect

Your Children and Win Your Case

By Judge James W. Stewart   $11.87

The Child Custody Book is intended to provide all the information you need while going through the process of a child custody case.  You will find advice on how to avoid the typical hostility that can occur as well as to preserve your divorce dollars.  Advice is provided on how custody decisions are made, what can be expected at each stage of the child custody process, and how parents can insure that their abilities are clearly presented to persons with influence over the child custody decision. It is intended to eliminate surprises that could lead to costly mistakes along the way.  This book is intended for divorcing parents, custody evaluators, family psychologists, and marriage and family therapists.

Winning Custody: A Woman's Guide to

Retaining Custody of Her Children

By Deedra Hunter   $10.36

Winning Custody provides every woman and mom with the advice and guidance on how to maintain custody of her child.  The advice provide attempts to help you learn all you need to know about the child custody battle, while maintaining your sanity and keeping you children from being caught in the middle of your disputes.  You will find advice on how to navigate the legal system of the child custody process, including how to find the right lawyer at a reasonable price, what to wear in court, how to effectively communicate with your ex, how to parent your child firmly, lovingly, and consistently throughout the crisis period, how to defuse your fears of losing your children, and how to love and believe in yourself during this time.

Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child

Custody Evaluations

By Jonathan W. Gould   $37.00

Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations supplies you with all the information you need to know about child custody cases.  Written in an easy to understand and logical manner, this book is perfect for anyone going through a child custody case as well as those that may affect the lives of children in a child custody case, such as evaluators, attorneys and judges.  This book compiles state of the art and up to date forensic techniques to advise you during this life changing time.

Fighting for Your Children:

A Father's Guide to Custody

By John Steinbreder   $10.47

Fighting for your Children is written as the father’s guide to fighting for child custody.  This book will provide all father’s attempting to gain custody of their children after the divorce process with the necessary information to guide them through the entire legal process.  Divorce advice is included from other father’s who have gained full child custody, joint child custody or no custody at all.  Divorce advice also details the dos and don’ts on how to get though this trying time.

The Essential Grandparent's Guide to Divorce:

Making a Difference in the Family

By Lillian Carson $8.76 

The Essential Grandparent’s Guide to Divorce is written for the many grandparents that must get involved in the lives of their children and grandchildren during a divorce.  Some divorces result in child custody being awarded only to the grandparent’s.  This book will give you the divorce advice you need to become a strong figure in your grandchild’s life, while trying to raise him/her.  As a grandparent holding sole child custody, the divorce advice provided in this book will help you remain strong during these changing times.  Helpful quotes and borrowed cartoons are also included. 

Dividing the Child:

Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody

By Eleanor E. MacCoby   $24.95

Dividing the Child contains all the divorce advice you need when faced with the social and legal dilemmas of a child custody case.  You will learn the background on the history of child custody decisions as well as more recent decisions and the effects on the children.  Divorce advice includes the benefits of the child's decision, the tendency to award child custody to mothers, the more recent popularity of joint child custody decisions and custody arrangements made by the parents without involving the legal system.  Some of the topics covered are, understanding the process of divorce, characteristics of the families studied, initial residence and child visitation, child custody: what parents want and get, the economic provisions of the divorce decree, conflict over the terms of the divorce decree, continuity and change in children’s residence and child visitation, parenting and co-parenting apart, economic changes over time, and facing the dilemmas of child custody.

Child Custody Made Simple: Understanding

the Laws of Child Custody and Child Support

By Webster Watnik $15.37 

Child Custody Made Simple is your divorce guide to understanding the laws of child custody and child support throughout the United States.  Each of the child custody and child support laws are explained in detail and supported by over one hundred real child custody cases, including cases such as O.J. Simpson, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Barry Bonds, and Elian Gonzalez.  Some of the issues covers include mediation, negotiating a parenting plan, creating a child custody schedule, how to research the law, writing and serving court documents, and arguing in court. Child Custody Made Simple also includes the best divorce, child custody, and child support websites for your reference.

Renegotiating Family Relationships:

Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation

By Robert E. Emery   $35.00

Renegotiating Family Relationships focuses on the effects of divorce, child custody and mediation.  This book is filled with all the latest psychological research as it pertains to such topics with in the divorce laws.  Case histories are included to provide you with an inside look at what it is like to endure the divorce process and the effects of divorce on children.  You will learn the consequences of both divorce and the mediation process as well as how the mediation process can keep you out of court and strength family ties.  Child custody laws are explained while teaching you to keep your family in tact.  Divorce advice is included on how to negotiate agreements out of court, how to define problems, set up caucuses, focus on issues instead of emotions, and review areas of agreement and disagreement.  All divorce advice is presented in a clear and easily understandable manner, while giving you the full story on what to expect during the child custody mediation process.