Synopses & Reviews
Get answers to your legal questions — in plain English!
Find out how to protect your family, your money, your job, and your rights
If you're like most people, you probably don't know much about your legal rights and responsibilities — until you run smack-dab into a messy legal problem. Now revised and updated, this friendly guide helps you get a handle on a wide range of everyday legal issues, decipher legal mumbo-jumbo — and come out on top.
Discover how to:
- Protect your child support rights
- Arm yourself against identity theft
- Clean up your credit and improve your credit score
- Hire the right attorney for your needs
- Draw up wills and living wills
Synopsis:
Now revised with 30 percent more material, this unbeatable home legal reference is updated to cover recent healthcare and labor legislation as well as changes to privacy rights, estate planning, Social Security, and bankruptcy.
Synopsis:
Legal help in plain English now revised with more than 30 percent new material!
Revised for the first time since 1996, this unbeatable home legal reference is now more indispensable than ever. Updated to cover recent healthcare and labor legislation as well as changes to privacy rights, estate planning, Social Security, and bankruptcy, it offers consumers and small-business owners an empowering guide to legal rights and responsibilities in a wide range of situations.
John Ventura, JD (Brownsville, TX), is a practicing attorney and the coauthor of Divorce For Dummies (0-7645-5058-6). He has been interviewed by CNN, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets.
About the Author
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John Ventura, JD, is a board-certified bankruptcy attorney and an authority on consumer and small business legal issues. His books include
The Credit Repair Kitand
The Bankruptcy Kit. '