Midlife Matters: Jim Duzak ("Midlife Dialogues" Series)

Jim Duzak, the “Attorney at Love”, has spent his entire adult life dealing with issues of marriage, divorce, single-parenting, post-divorce dating, and remarriage.

By age twenty, he was a husband and father. By thirty, he was divorced and raising his daughter by himself. He met his second wife through a personal ad, and at one time owned and operated a dating service specializing in mid-life matchups.

As an attorney, Jim represented hundreds of clients in divorce and custody cases, and later served as a full-time divorce mediator for one of the busiest family courts in the country.

Jim has also written and lectured about personal ads and online dating, and for many years has done one-on-one relationship coaching. As he says in his book, he has pretty much seen it all, heard it all, or done it all, including making a lot of the mistakes that he tries to keep his readers and clients from making.

Despite his qualifications, Jim prefers that people think of him not as an “expert” but as a coach, counselor and trusted friend.

A native New Englander, Jim is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University and Boston College Law School. He now lives in southeastern Arizona with his wife, Sandra. Mid-Life Divorce and the Rebirth of Commitment (Cold Tree Press, 2007) is his first book.