Description This "Everything A Divorce Lawyer Needs..." book is the result of over two decades of research and experience. Nothing in it is theory - finance, legal or otherwise. Nothing in it is hype. It all has to help divorcing folks own their homes post-divorce. It has to "turn white paper into green money." Everything in divorce settlements affect the ability of a potential borrower to qualify for their own mortgage loan. Yet, until Noel Cookman happened upon it, no proactive strategy existed to guide divorcing home-owners/buyers to guaranteed, satisfactory home ownership with good financing. "Get your divorce finalized, then bring us the decree and we'll see what we can do," is what nearly every divorcing person hears from the bank or lender. The system was just not set up to handle advanced guaranteed loan approvals. So, damn the system. Save the house and save the spouse. This is the definitive work on the intersection of divorce and mortgages. It is "Divorce-Lending for Attorneys 101." And, it is everything they need to know which is surprisingly little since a good Divorce-Lending pro will do all the work. The attorneys who read just one or two chapters will far exceed their peers in critical knowledge. They will know what questions to ask. They will know how to reject or accept claims of loan approvals. They will know how to argue forcefully for our dynamic-but-nuanced features in settlement language. They will have - to put it plainly - unassailable solutions that help everyone win. "Dang it, they never taught this in law school and in over 40 years of practicing, I've never heard this stuff." The number of years changes. But, it's the standard response to virtually every chapter in Everything a Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know About Mortgages. Noel Cookman Noel Cookman is America’s Premier Divorce-Lending Authority, having created what is now known as the Divorce-Lending industry. He is an Accredited Sponsor with the State BAR of Texas, writing and presenting CLE-accredited courses on his specialty - anything and everything to do with divorce and mortgage finance. Feeding his passion to help newly divorced moms and dads provide stability for their children, he and his team close divorced-related mortgage loans for home-owners and buyers in perfect synchronization with their divorce settlement. When he's not saving homes for divorcees, he's sleeping. It's a problem and he knows it. But still, he works. Sometimes, you might find him on a Central American mountainside or in "the bush" of a war-ravaged southern African country, doing what he does. Noel's first career was in church ministry. This included children's work, youth groups, music, overseas mission trips, working with seniors, small group oversight, lead pastor, and janitor. He still doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up but he imagines that his prior work has always prepared him for his next assignment.