Legal Forms for Everyone: Leases, Home Sales, Avoiding Probate, Living Wills, Trusts, Divorce, Copyrights, and Much More

by Carl W. Battle

Overview

Legal Forms for Everyone is the ultimate self-help legal guide that will save hours of research time and money in legal fees. Written by an experienced attorney, this book is complete with the most commonly needed, ready-to-use legal forms and precise instructions and checklists on how to use them, as well as advice about when you should hire an attorney. In addition, all the forms are online on a supplemental website to aid in customizing for individual needs.

Readers will find forms and advice for a variety of legal situations, including preparing a will, avoiding probate, buying and selling real estate, handling divorce or separation, getting a new name, copyrights and trademarks, bankruptcy, and so much more. However, due to the ever-evolving legal system and the development of new technologies, Carl Battle has added to this new edition such changes as:

How to protect against credit fraud, identity theft, and internet fraud

How to navigate new electronic filing systems for copyrights, trademarks, and patents

Updated information in filing fees, exemptions, and forms for filing for bankruptcy

The latest information on filing for patents

Legal Forms for Everyone is a comprehensive tool for getting in and out of legal situations without having to pay for that costly attorney.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621535713
Publisher:	Allworth
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	27 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carl Battle is an attorney and author of several books, including Smart Maneuvers: Taking Control of Your Career and Personal Success in the Information Age, The Retirement Handbook: How to Maximize Your Assets and Protect Your Quality of Life, and The Patent Guide: A Friendly Handbook for Protecting and Profiting from Patents (all published by Allworth Press). A founder of National Legal Information Services, Battle has been involved in a variety of seminars and legal education projects that help people understand their basic legal rights.

Editorial Reviews

Self-help legal forms are presented in a guide that covers everything from making a will or organizing a living trust to contracting services and filing complaints in small claims court.” —Midwest Book Review

“Reproducible, ready-to-use forms are accompanied by step-by-step descriptions of the process involved in over twenty common legal issues. . . . Well designed and easy to use . . . for do-it-yourselfers as well as people who have retained an attorney but want to understand what they’re paying them to do.” —American Libraries

“A good variety of ready-to-use forms.” —Library Journal

“Self-help legal forms are presented in a guide that covers everything from making a will or organizing a living trust to contracting services and filing complaints in small claims court.” —Midwest Book Review

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