EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LAW FROM AMERICA’S LEADING LEGAL AUTHORITY Practicing lawyers know the kinds of legal issues and problems people have. With their help, we’ve fashioned a book that answers the questions you’re apt to have, in language you can understand. —from the introduction by Alan S. Kopit, legal commentator and Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Public Education The law affects almost everything you do–including getting married, buying a home, driving a car, going to the doctor, signing a contract, making online purchases, and writing a will. With answers to thousands of key questions, the American Bar Association Family Legal Guide, 3rd edition, is the most comprehensive reference available on how the law affects your life. CLEAR, CURRENT, AND COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK LAWYERS IN EVERY AREA OF LAW [bulleted list] • Divorce, Child Custody/Support • Automobiles • Computers • Real Estate • Credit and Bankruptcy • Rights of Older Americans • Contracts and Consumer Law • Estate Planning • Workplace Law • Health Care • Small Business • Personal Injury • Criminal Justice • Home Ownership This essential legal resource will help you understand your rights and responsibilities, potentially reduce legal expenses, and avoid legal pitfalls.

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The American Bar Association Family Legal Guide is the most comprehensive and authoritative legal resource available for the layperson. Revised and updated, it helps readers steer clear of legal pitfalls and achieve a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities under the law. ·Covers a wide range of legal areas, including family law, home ownership, small business, consumer credit, wills and estates, and the rights of older Americans ·Revision includes new chapters on computer law and health law ·Follows a straightforward question-and-answer format featuring sidebars, bulleted focal points, and charts and graphs ·Thoroughly prepared and reviewed by top legal experts

American Bar Association Family Legal Guide, Third Edition: Everything your family needs to know about the law and real estate, consumer protection, ... home ownership, wills & estates, and more

The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is a comprehensive guide to understanding your rights as a patient and knowing how to move through the health care system. This guide allows you to understand issues about health care to the fullest. Among the issues covered are: Patients’ Rights: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights; Emergency Care; Informed Consent Paying for Medical Care: Insurance and Managed Care; COBRA Reproduction: Assisted Reproductive Technology; Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy; Sterilization; Abortion People with Disabilities: Pregnancy; Confidentiality and Disclosure; Vaccinations; Mandatory Testing; Denoting Tort Liability; Quarantine Nursing Homes: Choosing a Nursing Home; Paying for Long-Term Care; Medicaid Planning; Alternative Care and Living Regulating Medical Professionals: Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals; Medical Malpractice; Research on Humans Death and Dying: Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment; Hospices; Donating Your Organs; Assisted Suicid

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From America's most authoritative source of legal advice comes a time-saving, money-saving guide that will help individuals, couples, and families protect themselves, their assets, and their loved ones. Includes helpful information for unmarried couples, gay and lesbian couples, and unconventional families.

The ABA Guide to Family Law: The Complete and Easy Guide to the Laws of Marriage, Parenthood, Separation

The law affects just about every aspect of work, from hiring to firing to retiring. Now, as they've done with wills and estates, home ownership, family law, and consumer law, the American Bar Association has written this clear and compact guide to all the law that one needs to know, whether employee or employer. As in all ABA books, the advice is dependable and in plain English--not "legalese." Online promo.

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Printed in oversized type, a thorough but concise guide to legal issues of concern to senior citizens and their children covers such issues as health insurance, Social Security, workplace discrimination, retirement communities, and living wills. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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The ABA Legal Guide for Small Business is the complete and easy guide to understanding the small-business owner's legal responsibilities and options. This guide takes you from the day you start your business right through to the day you sell it or retire: Getting Started: Funding, Financing, Insurance, Location Types of Business Organizations: Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, Corporations, Limited Liability, Options Franchising: Tips for Evaluating Opportunity, Franchise Agreements, Buying a Business Employees: Hiring, Laws Affecting Employees and Employers, Terminating Employees, Maintaining a Safe Business, Dealing with Customers, Extending Credit Running the Business: Contracts, Special Terms and Strange Clauses, Contract Disputes, Scams, Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Taxes: Business Taxes, State and City Taxes, Knowing Your Rights Possible Endings: Getting a Lawyer, Retirement, Selling a Business Getting Help When You Need It: Knowing When You Need Legal Help, Choosing a Business Lawyer, How to Get More Information

The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Small Business

This comprehensive volume provides a series of summaries of the American Bar Association's legislative actions from 1982 to 2005 which shaped the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The Model Rules serve as the models for legal ethics rules of most states and provide guidance in resolving ethical problems, including lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and more. This history traces the significant changes to the Model Rules since their adoption by the ABA in 1982 and the rationale for those changes.

A Legislative History: The Development of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 1982-2005

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