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"Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will learn how to complete their own divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers: Understand the divorce process ; Learn about different types of divorce, including...
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"This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use social media strategically; and adopt policies that are...
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Learn about Medicare coverage, including Part D prescription drug coverage, and understand medigap insurance and Medicare managed care and what makes the most sense for you. And if you are denied for any medical treatment or benefits, this book teaches you how to file an appeal with Medicare, Social Security, or your state's Medicaid agency. Also learn how to claim disability benefits, veterans benefits, and federal retirement benefits. This edition...
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This book is for current and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as managers and other critical small business employees, who want practical and comprehensive guidance on business laws--without paying a lot in legal fees. The book helps owners and managers successfully begin and run a small business, covering topics like raising start-up money, protecting personal assets, negotiating leases and contracts, and more.
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The Essential Guide to Handling Workplace Harassment & Discrimination is a resource that every Human Resource manager, small business owner, or other general manager or supervisor should have. This book explains what workplace harassment and discrimination is, how it can be prevented, and how employers can comply with their legal obligations when responding to employee complaints. By using examples and answering frequently asked questions, The Essential...
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"Neighbor Law is a plain-English guide to the laws behind common neighbor disputes. Filled with tips on how to solve problems and restore good neighbor relations, this practical book helps readers learn to deal with: noisy neighbors, trees that hang over a property line, blocked views, unclear boundary lines, high, unsightly, or deteriorating fences, dangers to children ("attractive nuisances"), problems with neighboring businesses, and other common...
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"Construction Law Handbook is designed to address the current state of the business of construction and construction law. Written by a variety of distinguished construction professionals, including architects, engineers, accountants, lawyers, and consultants, in "plain English," the Fourth Edition will help the reader stay up to date with the constant changes in the construction industry. Audience: Practitioners in the field of real estate development"--...
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Presents a guide to legal issues for independent contractors, explaining how to draft contracts, price services, and maximize tax deductions.
Whether you're starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Fishman provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. From forming your business (LLC or other?) to keeping accurate records and learning to write legally binding contracts and letter agreements, he provides...
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"[This book] is a guide to spotting criminal issues and concerns in family law cases, useful for family law attorneys or anyone going through a family law matter. There is often an overlap between family law and criminal defense. Sometimes the criminal implications in family law cases are obvious, such as domestic violence, but they are often less so, such as unlawful tracking and surveillance. Family law attorneys who do not understand the criminal...
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"This edition is a complete rewrite of the Divorce Trial Manual, first written over thirty years ago. It incorporates the spirit of the original but expands the scope. While written for trial advocates, the principles in this book help any divorce lawyer who is preparing a case, whether for settlement, mediation, or trial. This book is designed to be read in conjunction with "The Family Law Trial Evidence Handbook" and "100 Days Before Trial: A family...
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"As technology impacts what we do as a profession and arguably improves how we do it, lawyers need to know that our existing rules of ethics still apply in a brave new world of status updates, tweets, Instagram followings, YouTube uploads, and since the first edition-Zoom and other video platforms. And as our book details, the tension between the inexorable advance of technol-ogy and the comparatively slow pace of the law translates to a world in...
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Provides an introduction to the patenting process, with everything you need to know about patent law basics, including the latest implications of the America Invents Act, the most important change to American patent law in two centuries. Includes patent and invention resources and a glossary of patent terms. --Adapted from publisher description.