Smart Woman''s Guide to Property Law - Protect Your Assets When You Live With Someone, Marry, Divorce, More

The Smart Woman's Guide to Property Law shows how current property laws cheat women at various stages of life: marriage, caretaking, childrearing, outliving your spouse, inheritance, and more. Carla Spivack illuminates these pitfalls and shows women how to avoid them, protect their wealth, and build for the future

List of contents

Introduction

1 The Legal Pitfalls of Living Together

2 The Truth about Prenuptial Agreements

3 How Divorce Leaves Women Out in the Cold

4 The Role of the Law in Perpetuating Domestic Abuse

5 Caregiving's Cost to Women

6 Disinherited-the Fate of the Surviving Spouse

Notes

Bibliography

About the author

CARLA SPIVACK is Oxford Research Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University School of Law, where she has taught about wills, trusts and estates, family law and property for ten years. Before joining the faculty, Spivack practiced civil litigation at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, a New York law firm, and clerked for the Hon Robert G. Flanders, Jr. of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Spivack is a leading voice in the movement to educate women about the pitfalls in the law and to advocate for legal change in the area of women and family wealth.Her articles about gender issues and property law have been published in the top ranked law reviews, and the best-selling casebooks read by law students cite her work in detail. She is a frequent speaker on women and the law at universities and laws schools around the country. She lives in Oklahoma City, OK.

Summary

Divorce is the fastest way to poverty for many women, and many family laws still on the books threaten women's wealth throughout various key stages of life. The Savvy Woman's Guide to Property Law discusses how the legal system impends women's wealth, teaching the reader how to properly protect their share.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Spivack
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781538134917
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3491-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Ratgeber: Trennung und Scheidung, Persönliche Finanzen, Personal finance, Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation, Family / Parenting / Childbirth, LAW / Family Law / Divorce & Separation, Advice on careers & achieving success, Separation & divorce, Separation & divorce: advice & issues, Gender studies: women, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Gender studies: women & girls, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, Family law: marriage, separation & divorce, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing