Comprising vignettes from the author's own experience as first a divorce lawyer and then a divorce mediator, combined with self-assessment tests, California Marriage License Handbook is a groundbreaking reality check about the legal and financial obligations people accept, often unwittingly, when they agree to legally join their life with someone else...until death or divorce court do they part.

After 10 years of slogging through divorce courts for clients, the author turned to actual problem solving to help people not just dissolve their marriage, but even try to retain it whenever possible. To that end, California Marriage License Handbook explains the confusing truth about community property, the difference between marriage and domestic partnerships, and the depth of fiduciary obligation most people simply just don't understand before they say, "I do."