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Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life's Big Events

by Nolo

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Price:   $9.95

Summary

A compact, fun-filled book that features entertaining facts and insights about life, love and the law!

Not many books can address quitting your job or going to small-claims court -- then recommend watching "Office Space" or cover how cases end up before Judge Judy.

Your Little Legal Companion, our most engaging book yet, does this and much more! Covering everything from birth to death and everything in between in an easy-to-read "Top 10 list" format, you'll find quick tips on:

• going to college
• buying a car
• renting an apartment
• dealing with an accident
• quitting a job
• starting a business
• dealing with identity theft
• becoming a landlord
• buying and selling on eBay
• moving in with a significant other (yikes!)
• starting a band
• taking your dream trip
• surviving a natural disaster
• holding the best garage sale ever
• fighting a traffic ticket
• writing a will
• and much, much more...

Press Reviews

"In the case of this book, knowing a little bit can go a long way." The Washington Post

"Wouldn't it be nice to have a simple, trusted guidebook for the many financial dilemmas we often face?... Just something that would offer basic tips to get you started. Well, I've found just such a book. It's Your Little Legal Companion." Providence Journal

"Your Little Legal Companion is 200 pages, but it's small enough to slip into a handbag. And the advice is affordable at $9.95." Michelle Singletary, syndicated personal-finance columnist

"A departure from Nolo's typical comprehensively written titles.... Your Little Legal Companion reads more like David Letterman's top 10 list." Hartford Courant

"The editors, all of whom are attorneys, cover 50 life situations, including starting a new job, buying a car, quitting a job.... Their counsel is humorously written with lots of fun facts." Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Another handy title is Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life's Big Events... It presents 50 scenarios (renting an apartment, investing money, surviving a natural disaster) and then a list of legal tactics and practical advice on how to deal with the situation." Sacramento Bee

"Guides you through 50 of life's key events that almost always come with legal implications..." RealtyTimes.com

"To avoid the negative financial consequences of making poor life decisions, read Your Little Legal Companion.... The book offers 10 key pieces of advice for each situation with authority, brevity and humor." Black Enterprise Magazine

"Your Little Legal Companion is a fine gift book, it’s a good book for sharing, it’s a cocktail table book for a little cocktail table, it’s a book for growing up, and it’s a book for getting out. Carry it in your cargo pants’ pocket, put it in your gear jacket or pop it in the case with your laptop. Sooner or later one of life’s events will send you searching and your answer will be only a page flip away." Broderick Perkins real estate columnist

Table of Contents

1. Going to College
2. Your First Job
3. Buying a Car
4. Renting an Apartment
5. Choosing a Roommate
6. Bringing That Adorable Puppy Home
7. Filing Your First Federal Tax Return
8. When You've Had a Car Accident
9. Quitting Your Job
10. Getting Fired
11. Starting a Business
12. Investing
13. Hiring an Employee
14. When Life Deals You a Physical Blow
15. Borrowing Money
16. Trouble With the Law
17. Changing Your Name
18. When You Start the House Search
19. Being a Good Neighbor
20. When You Elect to Be a Coach
21. When Your Identity Is Stolen
22. Getting Sued
23. Becoming a Landlord
24. Your First "Do-It-Yourself" Home Improvement Project
25. Buying and Selling on eBay
26. Writing a Book
27. Surviving Bankruptcy
28. Moving in With Your Lover
29. Having a Brilliant Idea
30. Starting a Band
31. When You Become Engaged
32. Getting Married
33. You Want to Run a Marathon
34. Having a Child
35. Adopting a Child
36. When Your Child Starts Kindergarten
37. What You Should Know About Divorce
38. Going on Your Dream Trip
39. Getting Old
40. Surviving a Natural Disaster
41. Holding the Best Garage Sale
42. Going Back to School
43. Feel Good by Doing Some Good
44. When You Decide to Live in Another Country
45. Traffic Tickets
46. Going to Small Claims Court
47. Planning Your Retirement
48. Retirement Plans
49. Becoming a Grandparent
50. Planning Your Estate

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