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Working with Divorcing Spouses: How to Help Clients Navigate the Emotional and Legal Minefield
Sam Margulies

The Guilford Press, 2007

A guide to expanding any psychotherapy practice, this book provides therapists with essential information for helping clients manage the process of divorce with minimal damage to their kids, themselves, and their finances. The author is a prominent divorce mediator who shows how to guide individuals and couples to make sound choices at each step of the divorce process. He clearly explains the legal and practical aspects of divorce, and discusses ...

Worlds of Weird
Leo (Ed.); Moskowitz, Sam (Intro.) Margulies

Pyramid, 1965

Getting Divorced Without Ruining Your Life: A Reasoned, Practical Guide to the Legal, Emotional and Financial ...

14 reviews
Sam Margulies

Fireside, 2001

My kids are glad that I read this book
My kids are happy because their father and I have had a truly amicable divorce. We work cooperatively as parents, so our kids have adjusted well although the situation has been painful for them (and for us). This book helped us to work out tricky custody and financial issues. It helped us avoid costly adversarial litigation. The book is sensible, down-to-earth and filled with good solid advice. ...

Man's Guide to a Civilized Divorce: How to Divorce with Grace, a Little Class, and a Lot of Common Sense

10 reviews
Sam Margulies

Rodale Books, 2004

Made a difference
My divorce was handled via mediation and ended up being (relatively) civilized (though still painful), in part because of the advice in this book. As the commenter from Boston noted it does take two rationale people to make this occur, and I was fortunate to be in that situation. But in many ways it was because of this guide that I approached the situation more rationally and in the end that ...

The Flags Were Three
Leo Margulies, Jr. Sam Merwin

Samuel Curl, 1945

The story of Juliette Michaux, a convent-bred orphan, who grew up in the days when the fabulous governor, de Vaudreuill, brought to the crude French settlement the luxury and licentiousness of a "little Versailles". Her daughter, Adrienne, who during the great fire, fell deeply in love with a Spanish nobleman and when the War with England reached New Orleans, young Francisca fell in love with a Yanqui.