Linda Nielsen is a professor of adolescent and educational psychology in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the effects of shared parenting and on father–daughter relationships. In her research, she has shown that shared parenting, where a child of divorced parents spends approximately equal time with the father and the mother, generates better health, mental and social outcomes; and that a daughters’ academic and career achievements are closely related to the quality of her childhood relationships with her father. Not to be confused with Linda Nielsen, a Danish professor of Law and former Rector of the University of Copenhagen.
Bogens emne er skilsmisseret, og bogen er centreret om de økonomiske forhold i forbindelse med separation og skilsmisse.
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Særligt siden sidste udgave af bogen er, at lov om ægtefællers økonomiske forhold er trådt i kraft, og at lov om ægteskabets retsvirkninger er ophævet per 1. januar 2018. Da loven ændrer en lang række forhold og bestemmelser, er bogen i sin nye udgave revideret grundlæggende med betoning af alle de nye regler.