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Books : Nonfiction : Law : Family & Health Law : Marriage
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You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be easy, right? It's not. Information can be hard to find, the government bureaucracy isn't helpful, delays are inevitable. Worst of all, there wasn't an easy-to-use guide through the process -- until now.Fiancé & Marriage Visas makes obtaining a visa and green card as painless as possible. It helps you decide the fastest and best application strategy for you, whether you are married or unmarried, living in the U.S. or overseas.
With this friendly, comprehensive book, you can:
- understand the immigration process
- make your way through the bureaucracy
- repare for meetings with U.S. officials
- learn how to prove your marriage is real
- deal with the two-year testing period
Plus, Fiancé & Marriage Visas gives you helpful advice on protecting and renewing your green-card status. It also provides samples of essential forms, and shows you how to find them online.
The 5th edition is completely updated throughout, covering the latest fees, sponsorship requirements and changes to the application process. It directs you to the most current forms online, and provides up-to-date sample forms to guide you.
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Part of the Queer Ideas series, edited by Michael Bronski
A persuasive argument for why married couples, gay or straight, should not receive special rights denied to other families
Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for nine months receives Social Security benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support.
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage should not bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships—including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. These relationships, like marriage, are about building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence and nurturing the next generation. Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.
"Polikoff wades through legislation and legalese with style and substance, plus a touch of flair. Impeccably researched, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage offers an evocative read that takes in the full breadth of the issues affecting marriage and avoids pedantry while remaining persuasive."
—Publishers Weekly
"Polikoff's argument is provocative, illuminating, and original."
—John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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Everything you need to enter your marriage with eyes wide open.Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement.
Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. The book covers:
- whether a prenup is right for your relationship
- how to decide what a prenup should include
- how to assemble a draft agreement
- how to turn your draft into a contract
- tips on negotiating and communicating
Prenuptial Agreements provides worksheets as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, as well as clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your needs. The 2nd edition is updated with the latest laws of your state.
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From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery--this time for white women in Utah? And did constitutional principles dictate that democracy and true liberty were founded on separation of church and state?As Sarah Barringer Gordon shows, the answers to these questions finally yielded an apparent victory for antipolygamists in the late nineteenth century, but only after decades of argument, litigation, and open conflict. Victory came at a price; as attention and national resources poured into Utah in the late 1870s and 1880s, antipolygamists turned more and more to coercion and punishment in the name of freedom. They also left a legacy in constitutional law and political theory that still governs our treatment of religious life: Americans are free to believe, but they may well not be free to act on their beliefs.
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This completely revised and updated third edition of the award-winning Divorce with Decency includes the most current research, statistics, and insights on the effects of divorce on spouses, their children, and society overall. Written by a prominent divorce lawyer with more than thirty years of experience, it is the most comprehensive treatment of the legal, emotional, economic, psychological, and social aspects of marital relationships and divorce available anywhere in a single volume.Initial sections look at the dynamics of divorce: the causal factors, the common "stages" from initial separation onward, and the complications surrounding each stage for older and younger couples and children. Important information on spouse abuse is also included. The book discusses key criteria in selecting an attorney and gives expert advice on directing and monitoring the course of a case efficiently and economically. Detailed background on critical legal issues is given, followed by case histories highlighting key points of divorce law. New and extensive sections have been added to the Third Edition that provide key tips on preserving, improving, and possibly "saving" marriages. The final section, "Life after Divorce," looks at the newly divorced as they face single parenthood, new relationships, and remarriage.
Informative yet highly readable (and occasionally amusing), Divorce with Decency has proven to be indispensable to anyone involved in a divorce, whether directly or indirectly.
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Strengthen Your Relationship by Opening the Doors of Communication
A prenuptial agreement is an integral part to starting your marriage off right. It can help open the doors of communication to direct your marriage toward greater understanding and financial success. And when the unexpected happens, a prenuptial agreement can go hand-in-hand with your other estate planning documents to protect you and to make sure you and your future spouse-not the government-control your property.
The Complete Prenuptial Agreement Kit is your guide to constructing the agreement and relationship that you want for the rest of your life.
Protect Your Assets
Ensure that you get to make your own decisions about distribution and division of your property.
Find the Law for Your State
Each state’s laws are listed, providing you with the most current information for your state.
Start Your Marriage
with Openness
Begin your marriage with a greater understanding of each other’s financial
situation and a smaller chance of ending your relationship in a divorce.
Provide for Your Children
Guarantee that children from a previous marriage will be taken care of if you are no longer able to care for them yourself.
Strengthen Your Relationship
As your relationship grows, you can adapt your agreement to reflect your changing lifestyle.
Write a Prenup that’s Right for You
Find everything you need to create and complete your own prenuptial agreement, with step-by-step instructions and samples in the text.
Whether you are about to get married, or already are, use The Complete Prenuptial Agreement Kit to protect yourself, your assets and your loved ones.
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In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits.
Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right.
As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
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Unabashed author Adryenn Ashley's sassy style combined with her expansive knowledge of legal and practical steps to protecting yourself and your hard earned assets, make wise readers of her book series on financial advice for women. Bringing humor and attitude to an otherwise touchy, challenging subject, Ashley makes the information totally digestible and relatable. Ashley's qualifications as a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, Certified Asset Protection Specialist, and Forensic Accountant bring rock-solid credibility to the valuable advice in her writings. Her Sex and the City meets Suze Orman approach is sure to make the savvy, modern, single girls loyal followers.So brides-to-be, put down your Modern Bride Magazine for just a moment, and lay your "what-ifs" to rest. The first installment of Adryenn Ashley s series of financial advice books for women, "Every Single Girl's Guide to Her Future Husband's Last Divorce," is a must read for the girl marrying the divorced guy.
Independent Publishers Book Award, Bronze Medal - Relationships/Sexuality, 2008
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Has your world suddenly been turned upside-down? Has a Prenuptial Agreement gotten the best of you? No need to suffer anymore, because Help! He Wants Me to Sign a Prenup is a where-to-go, what-to-do, I m at my breaking point, sanity saver. This book answers your pressing Prenup questions within a step-by-step workbook to guide you through the entire prenup process along with beauty tips and rewards to invigorate your soul. Through her personal stories and guidance, Dr. Lona Smith will make your relationship stronger than ever all while enduring the ordeal of going through a Prenuptial Agreement. This must-read book unveils how this Prenup veteran and you too will actually become empowered through the whole sign here process. You ll find that the key to emotional stability lies with laughter, using Dr. Lona s step-by-step process and of course, the support of your Prenup Posse. Dr. Lona Smith takes you on her wild ride of two canceled wedding dates, five fired attorneys, and many knockdown drag-out fights. This workbook, step-by-step guide and true story all in one will show you among other things how to deal with and workout all of your emotions, how to find and interview attorneys, what to include in your Prenup, how to best negotiate your position, and of course how to fight fair. A Prenup-ridden girl needs someone who has been through it all herself that s where Dr. Lona Smith comes in. Help! He Wants Me to Sign a Prenup is the true story of a Prenup survivor as well as a step-by-step guide and workbook for you to come out of the process triumphant with an agreement you both can live with and down the aisle with you and your fiancé, saying I DO!
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Every wedding involves many more people than the two who are about to make their promises, and there is always an endless list of things to get sorted. But when it is a second wedding, the people and problems can multiply beyond measure. This guide to second weddings takes account of the emotional and practical concerns involved, and considers the rules of etiquette involved to help the day run smoothly. It hopes to prove that there is no reason why a second wedding should not be as special as a first.
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The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.
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Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists.
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This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. The Lovings were not activists, but their battle to live together as husband and wife in their home state instigated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional, which ultimately resulted in the overturning of laws against interracial marriage that were still in effect in sixteen states by the late 1960s.
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Updated edition. Overview of the Florida divorce process, basic vocabulary, and legal concepts.
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Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States claim that allowing gays and lesbians to marry would undermine the institution of marriage, weaken family structures, and cause harm to children. Drawing from 17 years of data and experience with same-sex marriage in Scandinavia (in the form of registered partnerships), Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? is the first book to present empirical evidence about the effects of same-sex marriage on society. Spedale and Eskridge find that the evidence refutes conservative defense-of-marriage arguments and, in fact, demonstrates that the institution of marriage may indeed benefit from the legalization of gay marriage. If we look at the proof from abroad, the authors show, we must conclude that the sanctioning of gay marriage in the United States would neither undermine marriage as an institution, nor harm the wellbeing of our nation's children.
"A very interesting book that people should read."
--Bill O'Reilly, Host, The O'Reilly Factor
"Whatever your views are now on same-sex marriage, this is the book to read to be informed about why same sex couples want legal recognition and what legal union means to them and to the larger community. Spedale and Eskridge give detailed accounts of the effects of registered partnerships in Scandinavia--and along the way, offer fascinating and engaging pictures of many people's lives."
--Martha Minow,
Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor, Harvard Law School
"Spedale and Eskridge illuminate with remarkable even-handedness a debate that tends to generate more heat than light. They provide a cogent analysis of conservative arguments that same-sex matrimony threatens conventional marriage, and argue persuasively that enabling same-sex partners to marry may actually strengthen that beleaguered institution."
--John Podesta,
President and CEO, Center for American Progress
"An important and timely contribution. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the future of families in America."
--Martha Albertson Fineman,
Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Emory Law School
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THE "ANTI-DIVORCE" BOOK FOR COUPLES WHO ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING "I DO" LAST FOR A LIFETIME Robert Stephan Cohen believes that no marriage is half as complicated as a divorce -- and with three decades of experience as a high-profile divorce lawyer, he should know! In Reconcilable Differences, he gives couples the keys to navigating conflicts before they become roadblocks to marital harmony.
Cohen begins by identifying the seven "Universal Differences" that often lead to conflict but don't necessarily signal the end of the union:
Parallel Lives * Communication * Sex * Money * Infidelity * Transitions * In-laws/Family
With the cool, compassionate voice of a trusted adviser, he then explains that there are three phases of conflict: Warning signs -- the early tip-offs that trouble is brewing; Crimes and misdemeanors -- actions guaranteed to raise tempers; and Reconciliation -- the process of getting back on track. Drawing on countless case histories, Cohen reveals how to put these differences behind you and move forward -- together.
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Everything you need to enter your marriage with eyes wide open.
Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement.
Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. The book covers:
- whether a prenup is right for your relationship
- how to decide what a prenup should include
- how to assemble a draft agreement
- how to turn your draft into a contract
- tips on negotiating and communicating
Prenuptial Agreements provides worksheets as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, as well as clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your needs. This edition is updated with the latest laws of your state.
List of Forms
Worksheets
Worksheet 1: Financial Inventory
Worksheet 2: Credit History and Spending Habits
Worksheet 3: Financial Outlook
Worksheet 4: Prenup Goals
Worksheet 5: The Basics of Our Prenup
Worksheet 6: Comparison of Prenup to Law
Clauses for Building Your Prenup
A. Your Prenup's Title (Mandatory for All Agreements)
B. The Ten Basic Paragraphs (Mandatory for All Agreements)
C. Optional Paragraphs (Insert After Paragraph 8, Above)
D. Financial Disclosures (Mandatory for All Agreements)
E. Abstract of Prenup
- whether a prenup is right for your relationship
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In November 1998, the Hawaii and Alaska electorates voted to amend their state constitutions so that same-sex marriages would not have to be recognized. Rather than end the controversy surrounding same-sex marriages, the passage of these amendments will only spur more litigation, because the referenda themselves implicate constitutional guarantees and because amending a state constitution cannot lessen federal constitutional protections. Since same-sex marriages promote many of the same individual and state interests that opposite-sex marriages do, states will be unable to justify their same-sex marriage bans if those rationales are closely examined. When challenged, the recent constitutional amendments in Hawaii and Alaska may well be held unconstitutional by the state supreme courts on federal constitutional grounds, although ultimately the United States Supreme Court will likely be asked to resolve the relevant issues. Suppose that state same-sex marriage bans are held not to violate federal constitutional guarantees, but that one state nonetheless recognizes such unions. The other states will be permitted to refuse to recognize marriages celebrated in that state only if certain conditions have been met. Contrary view notwithstanding, the law of nature exception will not apply in this case. Further, even the Defense of Marriage Act will likely not afford states the right to refuse to recognize any and all same-sex marriages validly celebrated in sister states.