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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 349.73082 EAN: 9781892123299 ISBN: 1892123290 Label: Capital Books Manufacturer: Capital Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 268 Publication Date: November 01, 2000 Publisher: Capital Books Studio: Capital Books Sales Rank: 220446
Product Description: Women are amazingly adept at multi-tasking, balancing home and work and relationships, managing finances, and generally learning whatever is needed to get the job done or to take care of things. Why then do we get ourselves into avoidable legal messes? During Marilyn Barrett s more than twenty years of practicing law, she has found that women of all socioeconomic and educational levels consistently make certain mistakes that land them in an attorney s office. These legal messes can devastate them economically and emotionally, and make them desperate. This book describes - in plain, non-legalese language - the basic preventative measures women can take to avoid the following legal pitfalls when they fail to protect themselves and their children in - Legal title to property - Prenuptial agreements -Marriage and divorce - Starting and running a business -Paying taxes - Estate planning, and - Hiring attorneys. A comprehensive appendix of sample documents provides added protection. By using plain English and focusing on the general information women need to know, and telling women s stories that show how easy it is to get into a bad situation, Ms. Barrett becomes a pocket attorney for all women. The book has been endorsed by Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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Rating: - Pulling Your Head out of the Sand!
A family (divorce) mediator, I encounter many women who are painfully unprepared for the range and scope of divorce. This book is an excellent prep course and/or wake up call. It goes on my "recommended ... Read More
Rating: - A Guidebook for a safe and secure foundation
Here is a book which should be a trusted partner when you have to make decisions which affect your life and security. This book gives you the tools necessary to step back and analyze the pros and cons of ... Read More
Rating: - A truly informative and helpful book
This is a great book! Being a young, modern and relatively "hip" married woman (one who now co-ownes a business with her husband), I decided it was time to educate myself about all the legal stuff I'd been ... Read More
Rating: - A really smart woman
is Marilyn Barrett. She has so much valuable information to give, and she does it in such an easy way to understand.
Legalistics, to me, always had sort of a frightening tinge, because I thought ... Read More
Rating: - I only wish I'd known
This book is not only informative to women, believe me. I picked up my wife's copy, more to see what she'd be doing to me after our next argument, and was totally unable to put it down. My wife was quite surprised ... Read More
- Pulling Your Head out of the Sand!