Divorce Workbook

Description

Designed for people beginning to work with an attorney for their divorce proceedings, this workbook applies the principles set out in Kenneth H. Waldron and Allan R. Koritzinsky’s book Game Theory and the Transformation of Family Law. Its clear, easy-to-follow instructions help clients identify their goals and priorities for their children and for their financial futures—information their attorney will then use to guide the process of cooperative bargaining. 

Step by step, clients work through goal-setting and decision-making exercises for continuing to coparent and care for their minor children and for dividing financial resources, settling debt, and negotiating support. The entire process assumes that divorce proceedings can help spouses develop plans for their individual futures and move closer to their life goals; the proceedings are not about getting mired down in a dispute. The end goal is to achieve a divorce settlement with optimal outcomes for both spouses. 

Includes:

• Financial Disclosure Worksheet

• Marital Settlement Agreement Checklist

Book Details

Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 28
Binding: Spiral
Author: Allan R. Koritzinsky
Author: Kenneth H. Waldron, PhD

Allan Koritzinsky, JD, is a retired partner with Foley & Lardner LPP in Wisconsin. He chaired the firm’s Family Law team. He is the co-author of Game Theory & The Transformation of Family Law.

Allan R. Koritzinsky is a retired partner with Foley & Lardner LLP where he was a member of the law firm’s Litigation Department. He was also the Chair of the firm’s Family Law Team. As a family law attorney representing individual clients for over 50 years, Mr. Koritzinsky focused on divorce law and alternative dispute resolution. He also worked with colleagues in estate and business planning and real estate transactions. A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Koritzinsky earned his undergraduate degree in history and his law degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is admitted to practice law before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, United States Courts of Military Review and Appeals in Washington, D.C., the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Koritzinsky was active in the following professional organizations: Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) (1977- 2009); Diplomat in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers (1977- 2009); Member of the national AAML Board of Governors (1994-1997); former National Chair of the AAML Arbitration Committee and a Past President of the 

Academy’s Wisconsin Chapter; former Chair of the Dane County Bar Case Mediation Program; named a Wisconsin Super Lawyer (Law & Politics Media, Inc.)- 2005-2008; listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for over 25 years. Mr. Koritzinsky was the 2011 recipient of the State Bar of Wisconsin Senior Lawyers Division Leonard L. Loeb Award for “important contributions… made to your clients and to your community through your legal expertise and personal dedication…”

He has lectured in lawyer and judicial continuing education seminars throughout his career and was a Lecturer/Instructor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. While in Viet Nam (1967-1968), he taught full semester courses in Comparative Law and Introduction to American Law at the University of Saigon Law School.

Kenneth Waldron is a psychologist at Monona Mediation and Counseling in Wisconsin. He specializes in child and adolescent psychology, particularly in divorce and family law.

Kenneth H. Waldron, Ph.D. is licensed psychologist and a Member in the firm of Monona Mediation and Counseling LLC, Monona, Wisconsin.  His practice has been devoted to providing services to divorced/separated parents for over 35 years.  Dr. Waldron has provided divorce mediation and arbitration, a range of programs for conflicted parents, including Structured Coparenting Counseling and Parenting Coordinator services, expert witness services, assessment and treatment of Parental Alienation Syndrome, and educational programs for divorcing parents.  He has served as court appointed expert, performing custody studies and testifying to social science research in jurisdictions throughout the United States and in Canada.  Ken has done research and has published broadly on topics related to children of divorce.  

His latest books, co-authored with Allan Koritzinsky, Esq., is Game Theory and the Transformation of Family Law, in which the authors analyze traditional family law using game theory principles to help understand and explain why traditional family law often promotes rather than relieves family conflict, and, Winning  Strategies in Divorce, which is a “how-to” apply game theory principles to case settlement.  The authors also use game theory principles to propose alternative bargaining approaches, both in mediation and settlement bargaining, which increase effective communication and cooperation and increase the chance for optimal outcomes for both parties, and families when there are children.  He has spoken to numerous groups of judges, attorneys, mediators and mental health providers nationwide, along with having made appearances on television, radio and participating in on-line interviews.

Ken has trained professionals across the country in Structured Coparenting Counseling and Structured Coparenting Training Classes, a specialized program for reducing parenting conflict and increasing effective communication and cooperation between separated parents.  Ken has also published numerous articles, chiefly in legal journals, on general divorce related topics but also special topics such as post-divorce relocation.  His most recent publication is a research article on Settlement Negotiations, co-authored by Attorney Gregg Herman, published in Wisconsin Lawyer.  He also has two research articles pending publication, coauthored with Eileen McCarten, on Co-Parenting Conflict.   He and his co-author, Attorney Allan Koritzinsky, offer free booklets to professionals and blogs to parents on co-parenting related subjects on the site, www.thedivorcedoctor.net. 

Ken is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), has sat on the boards of the Eyes of the Child program development board, the Wisconsin Inter-professional Committee on Divorce (WIPCOD) and of the AFCC-Wisconsin Chapter.  He is currently the editor of the AFCC-WI Newsletter.  He is a trained mediator and has spoken to groups on advanced mediation principles in both state and national forums.