AIRED: February 24, 2020
SPECIAL GUEST: Jacqueline Newman
“You can waste vast amounts of money by hiring the wrong lawyer while engaging in a high conflict divorce. Newman shows people the playbook and provides real tactics for breaking up in a more humane fashion.” – ALEC BALDWIN, actor, producer, New York Times bestselling author of You Can ’t Spell America Without Me, and Nevertheless.
Marriage as we know it in America has changed— and so, too, has divorce. Women are out-earning men (as of 2010 the median full-time salaries of young women were 8% higher than those of their male peers in 147 of the 150 biggest cities in the U.S.) Fathers are winning custody battles. Same-sex marriage is law. But for the most part, people’s understanding of what to expect in a divorce is based on decades-old TV tropes and dated advice that passes for conventional wisdom. In this environment, how could anyone expect to walk away from a broken marriage without losing your mind or breaking the bank?
Elite New York City divorce attorney Jacqueline Newman is here to help, sharing her secrets from over two decades in the trenches. The New Rules of Divorce of Divorce: I2 Secrets to Protecting Your Wealth, Health, and Happiness is the first definitive guide for navigating modern divorce, full of advice to help readers:
- decide whether they are actually ready to get a divorce
- protect and secure their finances post-breakup
- find the right lawyer (or mediator) for their situation
- win the child custody schedule they want
- heal and stay sane through a disorienting time
The new normal is a spectrum of normal, and litigation must adapt. Newman delivers the truth in a calm, yet therapeutic voice and is on your side both emotionally and professionally in the courtroom. Drawing on her experience handling complex, high-stakes matrimonial cases and citing the latest research, Newman shatters old myths and provides an insider’s toolkit for humane, economical, and smart techniques to end a marriage without damaging other aspects of your life.
ABOUT JACQUELINE NEWMAN
Jacqueline Newman is the managing partner of the divorce law firm Berkman Bottger Newman & Schein LLP in New York City. She specializes in complex high net worth matrimonial cases and also in negotiating prenuptial agreements. Her practice consists of litigation, collaborative law and mediation. Newman appears regularly as an expert commentator for various television, radio shows and print publications, such as The New York Times, The New York Post, Business Insider, TIME, USA Today, and Glamour.
These activities and her reputation for ethical standards and professional ability among her fellow lawyers have earned her the highest rating, AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale Hubbell. Ms. Newman is also honored to be selected for inclusion in Thompson Reuters New York-Metro Super Lawyers Top 50 Women Attorneys since 2013 and was included in editions of New York City’s Best Lawyers since 2016.s – with Deirdre Hadeds for her work. She lives near Seattle.
