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Winning High-Conflict Custody Battles is the book that terrified, exhausted parents reach for when a custody dispute stops being a disagreement and turns into war. If your ex lies easily, thrives on drama, weaponizes your child’s love, or keeps dragging you back into court, this book shows you how to protect your children and your case with calm, documented truth instead of panic or rage. Written by nationally recognized trial lawyer and award‑winning author Stephen Rue, Esq., this field manual distills nearly four decades of front‑line family law experience and more than 5,000 cases ...

Louisiana Community Property & Financial Division: A Plain-Language Guide for Louisiana Spouses Dividing a Marriage is the complete roadmap to understanding how your home, retirement, business, debts, and investments are actually divided under Louisiana community property law. Written specifically for Louisiana—not Texas, California, or any other state—this volume in the Louisiana Family Law Compass Series explains the community property financial division rules that will shape the rest of your financial life. Louisiana family law trial attorney Stephen Rue has represented clients in ...

Louisiana Child Support & Spousal Support: A Plain-Language Guide for Parents and Spouses is the definitive, Louisiana-specific roadmap to understanding how support is really calculated, modified, and enforced in our state’s courts. Across four decades of Louisiana family law practice, Louisiana trial attorney Stephen Rue and Rue Law Firm have handled approximately 5,000 divorce, custody, and support matters for Louisiana families. Rue has been voted “Best Divorce Lawyer” by Gambit Weekly’s Best of New Orleans Readers Poll, and he brings that front-line courtroom experience directly...

Divorce Essentials gives you the full roadmap of a modern divorce case—from the first “Do I really want to do this?” conversation through final judgment and what happens next. Divorce is confusing on purpose. The system is complex, the paperwork is overwhelming, and everyone seems to have an opinion. Divorce Essentials cuts through the noise and shows you, step by step, how a divorce case actually works and how to protect yourself at every stage. Written by veteran family law attorney Stephen Rue, who has spent nearly 40 years handling approximately 5,000 divorce and custody cases, ...

When Demi's private life becomes public news, hope seems far out of reach. Christian college professor Demitria Costanas had vowed to end her affair with a colleague. But she gives into temptation one last time . . . and a lurking photographer captures her weakness for all to see. Quite...

When life seems to conspire against you, how do you find the courage to dive into Healing Waters? When Lucia Coffey looks at her reflection, she sees fat and failure. When she looks at her sister Sonia, she sees svelte and success. When she looks at God, she sees that divine love can't possibly...

The Divorce Field Guide: A Quick-Start Strategy to Protect Your Kids, Your Money, and Your Sanity is your fast, clear, grab-it-now roadmap for the first days and months of divorce. Designed as a quick and easy primer to the larger Winning Divorce & Custody Series, this field guide distills nearly forty years of front‑line courtroom experience into a concise, carry‑anywhere playbook you can actually use when your phone is buzzing, your kids need dinner, and your world is tilting. Veteran trial lawyer Stephen Rue, Esq.—voted “Best Divorce Lawyer” in his community and lead attorney ...

Must Goals: The Art and Science of Authentic Goal-Setting for Lasting Change Most people set goals from the outside in—focusing on tasks, metrics, or willpower—only to lose momentum weeks later. Must Goals reveals a different path: a complete system for setting goals that arise from your authentic identity, your deepest values, and the purpose you are called to fulfill. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Rue introduces the I AM SMART TO ACT™ Goals Method, an advanced, identity-driven evolution of classic SMART goals. Instead of chasing outcomes shaped by pressure or comparison, you ...

Transform Your Entire Money Story Today. Money is not just math in your checkbook; it is the story you tell yourself about who you are, what you deserve, and what is possible for your future. Must Money shows you how to rewrite that story from the inside out so that financial peace, wise decisions, and lasting wealth become the natural expression of who you are—not a constant battle of willpower and spreadsheets. Most people don’t have a knowledge problem with money—they have an identity problem. You already know you “should” spend less than you earn, save for the future, and ...

Discover the MUST that defines you. INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING BOOK: Must book has been recognized with multiple international and national honors, including the Paris Book Festival Award, Southern California Book Festival Award, Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Firebird Book Award, Goody Business Book Award, North American Book Award, New England Book Festival Award, and recognition from the American Book Fest Best Book Awards You’ve always known you were capable of more, but self-doubt, tragedy, disappointments, and trauma have kept you from realizing your dreams. Your choice is clear:...

With her life spinning out of control, Ryan Coe just wants to find a place where she can rest. Ryan Coe feels lost. Her marriage is over, her kids are living with their dad, her God-life is silent, and her patience is practically nonexistent. To top it off, her once exciting job as a...

Most habit books give you tips. Must Habits gives you a complete, identity‑first operating system for your life. Award‑winning personal development expert and bestselling author Stephen Rue presents Must Habits: The Identity‑First System for Building Habits Across All 7 Life Domains—part of the internationally and nationally recognized Must Personal Development Series. This series has helped readers worldwide transform who they are, not just what they do. You’re not failing because you’re lazy or “not a habits person.” You’re failing because you’ve been given behavior‑...

WINNING DIVORCE: Your Strategy for Protecting Your Children, Your Money, and Your Property in Court is a step‑by‑step field guide for anyone facing the most consequential legal battle of their life: the end of a marriage. Written by a veteran trial lawyer with nearly forty years of experience and more than five thousand family law cases, this book shows you how to stop reacting in fear and start acting with a clear, court‑tested strategy. Most people walk into divorce terrified of the same things: losing time with their children, getting wiped out financially, and being blindsided in ...

LOUISIANA DUI GUIDE is your excellent source of vital information regarding “How to Survive a Louisiana DUI Arrest!” and “What You Need to Know!” written by acclaimed DWI defense attorney Stephen Rue. Rue is honored as “BEST ATTORNEY” in Gambit’s “Best of New Orleans Poll” for 2012. Rue is a 2024 SUPER LAWYER and has a “SUPERB” 10 out of 10 AVVO Attorney Rating. He has offices in Jefferson Parish and St. Tammany Parish.

A first-person account of Chesapeake Bay bounty being harvested and provided to the national market is related by Capt. Joe Lore of Solomon's Island along with an interview with his father, Capt. J. C. Lore, Sr., from 50 years earlier. Pepper Langley relished his days of establishing his own business after his high school commencement speaker told him he had a gold mine in his backyard.

End the cycle of starting strong and stalling out—build engines that never stop. Most people treat motivation like weather—great when it shows up, impossible to control when it doesn’t. You get fired up by a podcast, sermon, or seminar, then by Tuesday you are back to snoozing the alarm, skipping the workout, avoiding the hard conversation, and drifting from the life you know you were meant to live. You start new plans, buy new planners, download new apps, and promise yourself that this time will be different—only to watch your old patterns return the moment life gets busy, ...

All three of The Chesapeake collection of tall tales, fishing stories, and tidewater turmoil are combined in one set.

Love doesn't fail for lack of feeling. It fails for lack of standards. After holding his mother's hand as she died, seasoned personal development expert and attorney Stephen Rue heard her final words: "Tell them to love." For four decades, he had witnessed love's collapse in over 5,000 divorce cases—and helped countless others rebuild their identities and relationships. He'd seen marriages destroyed not by lack of passion, but by patterns anyone could have changed. Now, as he sat in hospice with the woman who had survived abandonment, suicide, and devastating loss yet chose love anyway, ...

Must Year: Your Best Year of Becoming – A 365-Day Journey of Identity, Growth, and Habits is a year-long companion for people who are done drifting through life and ready to live as the person they are truly meant to be. Instead of chasing quick fixes or superficial change, this book guides readers through a daily journey of honest self-examination, identity work, and whole-life alignment across every major area of life. A crafted, wisdom-rich journey Must Year is built on a carefully designed system that rotates through nine core domains of a flourishing life—health, money, ...

Family Law Compass™ Custody Essentials: What Every Parent Must Know Before, During, and After a Custody Case gives you the practical, courtroom‑tested guidance most parents never receive until it is too late. Instead of drowning in fear, rumors, and half‑truths from the internet or friends, you’ll see clearly how custody decisions are really made—and what you can do, starting today, to protect your children and your relationship with them. Written by veteran family law attorney Stephen Rue, who has handled approximately 5,000 divorce, custody, and related matters over nearly 40 ...