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The etiquette of divorce

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Release Date:
14 February 2012
Author:
Roger Parloff
Source:
CNN

A new how-to book offers legal advice on how to get through your divorce with maximum dispatch and minimal damage to children.

FORTUNE -- Since 1789 the Debrett's publishing house, which describes itself as "Britain's leading experts on manners and behaviour," has been offering authoritative guides on how to handle life's social curveballs with tact, breeding, and aplomb.

Now it has addressed one of life's high, inside fastballs: divorce.

Its volume on this unusually bellicose subject was authored by the family law department of Mishcon de Reya, a London-based, transatlantic law firm. The resulting collaboration, Debrett's Guide to Civilised Separation, debuts February 29. (Though the book is never so indiscreet as to say so, Mishcon represented Diana, Princess of Wales, in connection with her divorce.)

 

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