Rightfully Yours: How to Get Past-Due Child Support, Alimony, and Your Ex's Pension

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Summary: Very useful...
Review: I picked this book up, not as a wronged custodial mother or first wife, but as a second wife, trying to anticipate ways that my husband's first wife might further try to take advantage of him. A great deal of press has been given to struggling mothers and downtrodden first wives, but no one pays any attention to the husbands who end up getting bled dry by their first wives. I found this book to be a great resource, not just for women looking to get what's "rightfully theirs", but also for men looking to protect what they've "rightfully earned" through hard work. I'm a social worker, so of course I agree that custodial parents should receive child support. But somehow, we've gotten the notion that women are automatically better parents simply because they're women and men are always abusive jerks. The only reason I don't give this book five stars is because Shulman seems to be cashing in on the pervading notion that all men are scum and deserve to be wrung dry. I happen to be married to wonderful guy who got taken to the cleaners and we're using this book to prevent him from being cleaned out. Having said this, I do recommend this book. It covers everything from military pensions, to retirement plans (QDROs), to railroad pensions and the information is very specific. I found it very informative.