Nanci A. Smith is a true writer, in part because of how she makes the insurmountable seem wholly attainable, thanks to some hard work, a good legal team, and a sense of proactive communication between both parties. With the release of Untangling Your Marriage, she tackles a boogeyman most of us don’t think about until we’ve tied the knot. Divorce, sadly, remains a highly contentious topic — even by today’s standards. For someone, particularly with firsthand professional experience, to write a book that so justly and humanely addresses such taboos head-on, it’s a welcome relief from the proverbial beating around the bush many of Untangling Your Marriage’s literary peers suffer from.

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Reading this book by Nanci Smith is like sitting down to tea with a close friend you can trust. She empathizes with the grief, offers hope and realistic strategies for recovery, and she's tough: challenging divorcing spouses to bring their highest selves to a Collaborative Divorce process. A must-read for people who want to protect their children from the damage of divorce and create a healthy transition to being single again

Ann Gold Buscho, PhD, psychologist, collaborative divorce coach, and author of “The Parent's Guide to Birdnesting: A Child-Centered Approach to Co-Parenting During Separation and Divorce”

Marriage is the only condition in our lives deemed a success only if one of you dies while doing it. For all the others, divorce has been held out as a failure, an acrimonious and awful game where the only winning left to you is to make your spouse the biggest loser. This book offers an entirely different way of making sense, making progress, and moving into a better next chapter. Using her experience as a lawyer leading this interdisciplinary re-conception of what divorce can mean, Smith offers a compassionate and practical guide through the tangle of emotional, financial, and legal complexities. This book offers the world a better version of what could be the bittersweet end to a successful chapter of marriage—and it might just change your life.

Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, author of four books including Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

Untangling Your Marriage helps couples “untie the knot” with a clear, compassionate and practical path forward. Written by a fellow human being, who happens to be a lawyer, this book demystifies the legal divorce process and attends to the emotional side of things. Readers will learn how to choose the right kind of lawyer (and other divorce professionals) who will support them to create a new vision for their future - one that attends to the important relationships they created while together.Nanci Smith’s voice is truly engaging and real.

Jacinta Gallant, lawyer and author of Going Steady: A Toolkit for Building Our Future Together

Nanci Smith has written a nuanced and approachable book that is a gift to anyone looking for an approach to dissolving and recreating relationships.

Kelly Lewis, Author of Navigating Polarities: Using Both/And Thinking to Lead Transformation

Smith introduces the reader to an alternative approach to divorce, one that honors the intense grief of the divorce experience, as opposed to the more common adversarial approach that typically results in more damage and pain. The book is both practical with the information, tools, and advice it provides for utilizing the Collaborative Divorce process, as well as inspirational, inviting the reader to discover personal growth in the midst of facing what is often one of life's most painful experiences.

John T, former client