FAIRFIELD – Fairfield divorce attorney and mediator Larry Sarezky has won a 2017 National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) for his family law how-to book, Divorce, Simply Stated. The annual competition is open to all English-language books from small, medium, university, self- and independent publishers.

Sarezky is a past chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Family Law Section. His clients have included Fortune 500 CEO’s, MLB Hall of Famers, and Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy winners. He has lectured to lawyers, judges, and therapists throughout the U.S., and his legal commentaries have appeared in The Huffington Post and numerous other publications. In recent years, Sarezky has made a second career of reducing the financial and emotional burdens of divorce, especially for parents and children.

“I wanted to offer more than the standard divorce how-to book,” says Sarezky of Divorce, Simply Stated. “At this point in my career, I wanted to share the strategies that have enabled my clients to achieve their goals while avoiding the mistakes that plague too many divorcing spouses.”

The book includes tips from a veteran divorce insider on maximizing results while minimizing expenses, worry and acrimony. In addition, it also contains stress-reducing humor, and a holistic approach to help readers cope, organize, relax, and even sleep better during separation and divorce.

Saving money is a major theme of Divorce, Simply Stated. Not shy about poking fun at his colleagues – or sharing their secrets – Sarezky explains divorce lawyers’ billing practices and how to avoid huge legal bills that compound – rather than solve – clients’ problems. He also discusses additional opportunities for savings, including taking advantage of special divorce tax rules and a “be-your-own-paralegal” strategy for readers to organize their own cases much the way trial lawyers do.

Sarezky’s other efforts to ease the burdens of divorce and separation include his Telly Award-winning custody film, Talk to Strangers, a 25-minute film aimed at dissuading parents from pursuing unnecessary custody and other child-related litigation. It is accompanied by a guide to help separating parents co-parent productively.