Author's Comment Divorce is always a time of upheaval, but after age 50, it has a feel, context, and issues different from a marital disruption at a younger age. Having more years behind you than ahead changes one's focus and needs. Estate planning, financial planning, health care costs, mental capacity events, involvement of adult children, and more immediate retirement calculations are significant inquiries and concerns in an older divorce. What prompted my writing Divorce After 50 was the fact that few divorce attorneys were paying attention to these relevant issues, and I wanted potential divorce clients to be effective self-advocates and consumers of legal services and be better prepared to make monumental decisions impacting the remainder of their lives. "Silver winner Benjamin Franklin Award." Independent Book Publishers Association "Dealing with Divorce after 50 -- health conditions, adult children, cheating and hidden assets! How aging affects your decisions." KGO TV - ABC 7 San Francisco, CA -The View from the Bay "Nolo has been publishing excellent self-help legal manuals since 1971." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine "Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software.

" Los Angeles Times "Green, a family law attorney, offers a guide for individuals getting divorced after age 50. She describes the role of lawyers, family members, children, and others, then divorce options, division of property, assets, debts and taxes, health care coverage, financial survival, estate planning issues, and the settlement agreement, ending with survival stories." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView.