Course Details
Author: Emily Doskow, Atty
Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area since 1989.
Emily is the author of Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce, the co-author of Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership & Civil Unions and The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community, and the editor of many Nolo titles, including Divorce Without Court: A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce and the bestselling Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees Boundaries & Noise.
Emily specializes in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Publication/Revision Date: 8/5/2026
Course Exam Questions (online): 70 (multiple-choice)
Program Delivery Method: Self-Study
Available Formats of Course Text: Hardcopy (paperback) book sent in the mail or eBook purchased separately from the publisher
Course Level, Prerequisites, and Advance Preparation Requirements
| License | Course Level | Prerequisites | Advance Preparation Requirements |
|---|
| CFP® | Overview | None | None |
| CDFA® | Overview | None | None |
* This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Sponsor ID Numbers
CFP Board Sponsor I.D.: 1008 — Course ID: 257422
Registered with the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts
Learning Objectives
As a result of studying the course material, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below:
- Understand the divorce process
- Recognize the factors that lead to costly divorces and options for resolving tough divorce-related financial issues
- Recall the essential financial information relative to a divorce process that needs to be gathered
- Understand the financial planning aspects of child support and custody
- Understand the financial planning aspects of alimony
- Understand the financial planning aspects of property division, including family businesses
- Understand the financial planning aspects of debt relating to divorce
- Understand the financial planning aspects of retirement benefits relating to divorce
- Recognize the tax consequences and planning considerations of divorce
- Understand the legal rights issues that have an impact on financial planning considerations
- Understand the working relationships that occur between advisors, lawyers, and/or mediators.
