J.K. Lasser Pro Guide to Tax and Financial Issues in Divorce

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A straightforward and practical reference for the complicated tax and financial topics of divorce

Professionals specializing in the field must understand the financial and tax aspects of divorce in more detail than ever before-and the issues are more complicated than ever before. The J.K. Lasser Pro Guide to Tax and Financial Issues in Divorce is designed to arm professionals with the information they need to best serve their clients in dealing with the complex finances of divorce. Practical and accessible enough for nonprofessionals, the book also helps those worrying over their own divorce understand the topics they must deal with. Examples, guidelines, forms, tools, and checklists complement expert discussion of these issues and more:

Valuing interests in closely held companies
Finding the right lawyer and accountant for your divorce
Negotiating the settlement
Tax implications
Research and investigation in the discovery phase
Subpoenas and requests for documentation
Marital versus nonmarital property
Analyzing and determining one's true economic income
Alimony and other maintenance payments
Dissipation
Mediation and collaborative law for divorce

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Largely business valuation, with typos.......2002-09-24

Nearly half this book is devoted to valuation of businesses for divorce purposes. If you or your spouse don't own a business, you may be better off with a different guide to divorce finance and taxes. Why spend money on book you'll only use half of?

This book is clearly designed for accountants and tax attorneys. While a layperson might find some of the checklists and so on helpful, there is also a lot of verbiage about sections of the tax code, and terminology a layperson would need to look up in the glossary. (Extra star for having a glossary, though!) I think there is a limit to how much a topic like this can be "simplified" --- it is irreducibly complex.

I was dismayed to see the number of editing errors in the book, especially given the high list price. Some of them are merely annoying, such as missing words or wrong word forms that make a sentence ungrammatical. However, some errors affect the content. In one paragraph about retirement plans, the first sentence was about "defined contribution plans"; the next sentence also started with "defined contribution plans" when it should have said "defined benefit plans". Someone who didn't already know better could be led astray by this error.

My advice: be forewarned that this book is highly technical, and buy it used unless you are a divorce professional who can write off the expense.

My rating: 3 stars, plus an extra star for the glossary

Innovative.......2002-03-04

This book was very direct and practical. I found the easy-to-follow tools, checklists, work programs, flow charts, forms to be very helpful. This book makes me feel much more confident to help my clients.

Comprehensive, Clear, Coverage.......2002-02-27

As a financial consultant with many clients who are going through or just been through a divorce, it is extremely important to have a reference book that provides complete information on all of the complex issues relating to this subject. This book does all of this and more. Not only do I intend to keep a copy in my office for reference, but I think this book provides such good information in easy to understand language that I intend to recommend it to my clients too. An excellent resource.

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Media Law 1997 Supplement
Rex Heinke
Manufacturer: BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Law | Subjects | Books
Media & the Law | Law | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1570180709

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1997 supplement to Cases and materials on mass media law, 5th edition (University casebook series)
Marc A Franklin
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Mass Media | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006QWB6E

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1997 Supplement to Law of Mass Communications: Freedom and Control of Print and Broadcast Media
Dwight L., Jr. Teeter , Don R. Le Duc , and Bill Loving
Manufacturer: Foundation Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1566625599

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This volume encompasses and unites all the major topics relating to Insect Chemoreception. Part 1 addresses topics such as plant/insect interactions, pheromones, ultrastructure, electrophysiology and the biochemistry of chemoreceptors. Part 2 embraces applications of plant chemicals and cultivars in insect pest control, host plant resistance and pheromones. A concluding chapter discusses the scope and potential of genetic engineering.

This comprehensive account of the major aspects of sustainable insect pest control, together with the key references cited, will point the way to relevant research projects, and provide an up-to-date awareness of recent developments in the field.

Audience: Graduate students and researchers in insect chemoreception, chemical ecology and sustainable pest control.

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The Ovary of Eve is a rich and often hilarious account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century efforts to understand conception. In these early years of the Scientific Revolution, the most intelligent men and women of the day struggled to come to terms with the origins of new life, and one theory—preformation—sparked an intensely heated debate that continued for over a hundred years. Clara Pinto-Correia traces the history of this much maligned theory through the cultural capitals of Europe.

"The most wonderfully eye-opening, or imagination-opening book, as amusing as it is instructive."—Mary Warnock, London Observer

"[A] fascinating and often humorous study of a reproductive theory that flourished from the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century."—Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education

"More than just a good story, The Ovary of Eve is an object lesson about the history of science: Don't trust it. . . . Pinto-Correia says she wants to tell the story of history's losers. In doing so, she makes defeat sound more appealing than victory."—Emily Eakin, Nation.

"A sparkling history of preformation as it once affected every facet of European culture."—Robert Taylor, Boston Globe

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Mystery, history, science.............2001-03-06

For the longest time, humans did not understand reproduction. Maybe they still don't. According to archeomythologists like Marija Gimbutas (THE GODDESS) humans first believed they came into existence spontaneously from the Goddess. After all, they could empirically detect that babies came from female bodies so why shouldn't a great big female goddess be the source of all life. With the arrival of Indo-Europeans in old Europe came the belief that the source of life was God the Father. After all, didn't the Bible say God made Adam and Eve and later on planted the baby Jesus in Mary? Her womb was merely a vessal to carry him (Zeus!! if she had been his real mother he would have been at least half human).

The second millenium of the Common Era produced a new twist on an old way of thinking. Renaissance men, being devoutly religious, still believed the source of all life was male, but now they sought to demonstrate this "truth" scientifically.

The "father of insemination" Spallanzani, demonstrated with frogs that male sperm was a requisite for the production of progeny. Correia tells of Spallanzani and his research in her amusing chapter "Frogs with boxershorts." But the Italians weren't the only scientists interested in sperm. Dutch scientists like Nicholas Hartsoeker (the heart searcher with the microscope), Antoni van Leeuwenhock, and Swammerdam fiddled with fleas and tulips and "advanced" the theory of spermism--that preformed little characters (homunculi) were planted in females (think penises) and then grew into babies. The female was still merely the vessal for rearing these perfectly formed progeny (think kangaroo pouch).

Dr. Clara Pinto Correia, professor of developmental biology says the theory of preformation was still being discussed in the 19th Century. Although the jacket of THE OVARY OF EVE insists men and women were engaged in the study of preformation, the truth according to Correia is that this was a male-insprired activity largely driven by the belief that males were the source of life.

Preformation was a wrong turn down a dead-end street. Usually historians tell us the story of scientific sucessesses, but what makes this book so interesting is that Correia tells us the amusing and heart-breaking story of the losers. And, these losers were a pretty impressive bunch of guys. Many of them were geniuses we know for other reasons, who were failures on spermism/preformation front, but sucessful elsewhere. This is a fascinating, readable and wonderful story that involves demons, dragons and Dracula. I recommend THE OVARY OF EVE to anyone who loves science and a good mystery.

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The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation.(Review) (book reviews) : An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Raymond Ludwin
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00098ZG7U
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1044 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Raymond Ludwin
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1998
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Page: 501

Article Type: Book Review

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The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

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The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation
Clara Pinto-Correia
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ0KWS

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The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation.
Pinto-Correia (Clara)
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ1POU

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Many physical phenomena are described by nonlinear evolution equation. Those that are integrable provide various mathematical methods, presented by experts in this tutorial book, to find special analytic solutions to both integrable and partially integrable equations. The direct method to build solutions includes the analysis of singularities à la Painlevé, Lie symmetries leaving the equation invariant, extension of the Hirota method, construction of the nonlinear superposition formula. The main inverse method described here relies on the bi-hamiltonian structure of integrable equations. The book also presents some extension to equations with discrete independent and dependent variables.
The different chapters face from different points of view the theory of exact solutions and of the complete integrability of nonlinear evolution equations. Several examples and applications to concrete problems allow the reader to experience directly the power of the different machineries involved.

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Following the national success of Ella Minnow Pea, this second novel from Mark Dunn brings the same charm and love of good language to a small town in the South. A Robert Altmanesque comedy, Welcome to Higby follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. From mousy Carmen Valentine, whose guardian angel, Arnetta, gives her penny-pinching shopping tips, to addled old Hank Grammar, who preaches Jesus to his neighbors' pets, Higby's townsfolk have a knack for getting into -- and trouble getting out of -- outrageous situations. Blessed with an unerring eye for dead-on details, Dunn lovingly traces the eccentric and touching lives of his characters, offering an intelligent yet heartwarming vision of life in small-town America. Welcome to Higby is a Southern comical tale about simple dreams both realized and thwarted by all the complexities of the human heart.

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Not as clever as Ella Minnow Pea.............2004-11-18

A fine book but I was disappointed because I was looking for another Ella....

Loved Ella, at least.......2004-10-23

*Welcome to Higby* was a disappointment considering the wit Dunn exhibited in *Ella Minnow Pea*--not that the book didn't have wit; it just didn't have the spark that *Ella* had.

Part of the problem was the writing itself. Dunn spent a lot of time "head-hopping" in this one. He drifted from one point-of-view to another. Not only was this distracting; it was confusing. I had to reread paragraphs to find who the main player was from one minute to the next.

His theme is beaten to death, as well--everything goes as long as "love" is involved. A minister ignores his son, partly because of his grief over his wife's death and partly because of his work; then he falls "truly in love" with a former prostitute and has sex with her upon their second meeting while his son climbs the Higby water tower for the second time. Another man falls instantly for a woman who has rear-ended his vehicle. And another man who has just converted to Christianity--but is still shacked up with his girlfriend due to an imagined "grandfather clause"--decides to bed down with a new flame, then goes back to his girlfriend, making passionate love to her the same day; and then the minister who catches who catches them is made to look ridiculous??? Other types of "love" that are deemed unacceptable by society are gushed over in this book, as well.

What humor is there is pretty run-of-the-mill (for example, a bumbling policeman, an adorable older man bordering on senility).

Little new; little original; little reason to read it.

A fun book..........2004-07-27

Well, it took me a few days to finish this book, I wasn't really able to get into it all that much, but once I finished it I started to like it more and more! Thinking back on all the quirky, eccentric folks of Higby, Mississippi, I was a little disapointed there wasn't more to read.

The book is about Labor Day weekend in the small town, and the going-ons in some of towns peoples lives. The chapters are real short (3-5 pages) and each focuses on a different person. There's Carmen, in love with the handsome Tie who doesn't know she exists...Stewie and Marci, who's relationship is tested, Pastor Cullen who's son Clint falls from the Higby water tower, both of whome are trying to move on after the loss of a wife and mother, and so many more!

I recommend this book as a light fun little read. You'll really enjoy the craziness and quirky drama of the folks from Higby, Mississippi.

Funny and uplifting.......2004-04-24

I loved this book. The people you meet in Higby are eccentric and charming and wonderful. The introductory biblical quotations for each chapter are a real treat and must be reread after finishing the chapter for full appreciation.

Visit to Mississippi town mirrors a Texasville visit of yore.......2004-01-06

The brevity of chapter length in Mark Dunn's Southern comedy entices the reader to keep reading. Yes, the character names are contrived and ridiculous, but no more than other authors have penned in their comic tales. In fact, this tale of the citizens of Higby, Mississippi, mirrors the bizarre cast of Larry McMurtry's ribald "Texasville", and of the humor of the movies "Daddy's Dyin': Whose Got the Will?", "Home Fries", ad nauseum.

But I liked it enough to read on. Perhaps I was wondering how Dunn's plot might parallel T. R. Pearson's "A Short History of a Small Place", what with the town water tower serving as the start and end of the Higby visit.

The characters in this tale are richly eccentric and colorful to match their names. Dunn had fun with these names: Carmen Valentine, Harold and Carold, the Pedloe twins, Klaus and Abbadene Ostermeyer, Stewie, Tie, Ponce, Talitha, Bowmar, and more. And the reader is reminded of the cleverness of Dickens and Twain in their naming of casts of characters.

Dunn's playwright's talent definitely influences his novel. He has a way of setting up scenes that might be vividly played out on stage or on screen. And with the humorous situations into which he places his cast, one also sees the pathos of real life, the true basis of humor, a deep sorrow of the valleys of life, not just the high points.

Each character, starting with a grieving teenaged boy named Clint Cullen, a preacher's son, no less, and a love-starved maker of potato salad, virginal Carmen Valentine, is likeable and believable. In fact, you may swear that you know some of these people. Dunn skillfully manages his "cast of thousands" by weaving them into one another's lives, just as small towns tend to do to their citizens.

I do recommend this book. It is a nice escape from TV and its laugh track sit-coms and over-done reality series. And you will find laugh-out-loud moments, good for what ails you during winter doldrums.

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Welcome to Higby

Manufacturer: MacAdam/Cage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739441043

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Welcome To Higby
Mark Dunn
Manufacturer: SIMON & SCHUSTER @ TRADE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SGC5K4

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