The Non-Lawyers Guide to Divorce in Maryland

About the Book

With this book you can:

* Learn what your basic rights are under all areas of family law in Maryland

* Learn the grounds for divorce and annulment in Maryland

* Learn how the court decides custody and visitation

* Learn how to compute your own child support rights and obligations under the Maryland child support guidelines

* Learn how the court decides alimony issues

* Learn how Maryland's marital property law may affect your rights to property owned by you, your spouse, or both of you, including rights to business assets and pensions

* Learn what your rights are under court orders from other states and other countries

* Learn how to use the non lawyers (Pro Se) forms to file your own case for divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, and for modifications of child custody, child support, and alimony

* Learn how to get the court to enforce the court orders that you already have using contempt of court and other forms of judgements

* Learn when you REALLY should get a lawyer.

About the Author

Bernard A. Raum is an attorney who has been involved in the Domestic Relations and Divorce area for over nineteen years in Maryland.
He received his Juris Doctor in 1970 from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He has been a member of the Howard County Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, and is a past chairman of the Section of Family and Juvenile Law of the Maryland State bar Association. He is a consultant to the Rules Committee of the Maryland Court of Appeals in the area of family law. He has been a frequent lecturer in the area of family law for the Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (M. I. C. P. E. L. ), the state bar association's non-profit teaching organization.
Mr. Raum is also the author of MARYLAND DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW, a professional legal text book on Maryland family law which has ben used throughout the state by lawyers and judges, and which was originally published by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, later West Group.