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    Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions

    By Shae Irving and Nolo Editors

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    The all-in-one guide to the 500 most common legal questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNOLO
    Release dateDec 30, 2016
    ISBN9781413323443
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    Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions
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    Shae Irving

    Shae Irving has written and edited for Nolo since 1994, specializing in estate planning and family law issues. She has written or co-written books and software, including Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair and Lasting Contract, Living Wills and Powers of Attorney for California, Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To, and Nolo's Quicken WillMaker Plus software. Shae graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and briefly practiced law at a large San Francisco firm before becoming a legal author.

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    • 4/5
      Well, this book is a good starter for law-knowledge, I can say that much. Much of it seems to be common sense advice, and pointing to other books. By "common sense advice", I mean that I lost count of the number of times a question was answered by reminding people to check the most current laws, check markets before diving head-first into anything big, etc etc. And many questions were answered with "this varies by state/situation, so you should consult (book or website)". I get trying to be thorough, but why even put the question in the book if the answer will just be repeating that a dozen times?Also, *much* of this book is basically just recommendations for other books, often other Nolo books. Giving partial answers and then "more information is available in such-and-such book" is okay every so often, I guess, but not when you end up doing that for 10+ questions per chapter. Some parts of the book, some "answers", are just too vague to be of much use, at least imo. The section on trademarks touches on the different types of trademarks, but didn't make it clear *why* some things are trademarks while other things are servicemarks. The bankruptcy section states the maximum debt limit for filing Chapter 13, but fails to mention if there is a *minimum* debt amount to qualify... something I would have been very interested to know, due to my own personal financial situation.I liked the chapter formats and the box-quotes at the beginning of chapters, that quoted famous people about the chapter-subject. I definitely liked all the information about Medicare, basically because I don't know much about it at all and it was very eye-opening. I also like that this book addresses legal concerns specific to gays and lesbians throughout the book, instead of jamming it all together in one chapter like some other law books do.This is a great starter-book, and some of the information is definitely useful. But the overzealous other-book promoting, and the lack of specifics in some of the chapters, make it less then ideal.
    • 3/5
      I could recommend this book for a person not in the legal world, who needs an easy-to-navigate guide. The sections are well organized and written in a style that makes for understanding without dumbing down. Not terribly exciting, but that's not the purpose.
    • 4/5
      I read large chunks of this book--some in reaction to things that were going on in my social circles, and some just because I read things if they are sitting there. Since it is an "encyclopedia," the chapters do not really lean on each other. By "everyday law," the book means laws that most ordinary people will have to deal with in their lifetimes, especially aspects of civil law such as family, home buying and leasing, and employment laws. You can almost think of it as "law about life's transitions."The sections I read in which I had more background seemed to be accurate. The treatment of each topic was, due to space constraints, very shallow and did not yield much new information to me. However, each chapter did explain some of the basic concepts and vocabulary that would allow the reader to make more specific queries, and in some cases tables summarized state by state differences or listed the sections of the relevant state codes. When a younger friend just out of college was visiting and telling us about the very small business he was trying to start with two friends, I realized from his questions that this would be a great book for him. It covered basics about small businesses, the house he was renting, his job, etc. Thus I am going to suggest that this is a great book to give someone between the ages of 15 and 25. It will fill in a lot of the details that age group hasn't picked up on yet. If you are older and more experienced (at least vicariously through your friends), you will probably find it to be less valuable although still probably worth thumbing through at the library.
    • 3/5
      This is the first Nolo Press book (of the many I own or have read) to disappoint me. It is so general as to its subject matter and jurisdictions that it cannot address any specific legal matter in a specific place. I liken it to someone undertaking to write a travel guidebook to the entire world. The subject-matter is simply too large to say anything that is meaningful and true for every reader. It would be better to write a series of these books: one per state, one that addresses federal law, and perhaps one that covers the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
    • 4/5
      This is an excellent overview and starting place for most day-to-day legal questions. While it can't go over the specifics of every state or situation, it does cover the major issues that are most likely to come up, especially for public librarians.
    • 5/5
      Excellent library addition for non-lawyers navigating common legal interactions. An explication of terms is clear and concise, although detailed enough to impart understanding. Although clearly not a replacement for a lawyer, a good comparison is a foreign language phrase book - enough information to become necessarily conversant. I recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      The title pretty much tells it all: Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions. It's formatted like the"For Dummies" books without the humor, ie. a question followed by an answer. It's written clearly and concisely, hard to believe a lawyer or lawyers wrote it. I'd guess they gave the info to a writer and had him/her write it, then checked it for accuracy.In any case, it was facinating to learn aspects of the law I didn't know. I gleaned valuable info on wills, what laws renters and landlords are bound by and many everyday situations.Before reading the book I wondered how the book could cover every states as each has its own laws. That's handled by basic information generally common in most states with some notable exceptions noted. They also refer to various websites and books for more detailed and state-specific information. Often such references are to Nolo sites or books. I have no problem with that. They are a profit-making company I assume. Still, those referances remind the reader that each of us can find out a lot on our own on pretty much any subject.Not only is this a handy book for your everyday legal questions, it should be handy for writers of fiction. If your character is going through divorce or child custody issues, for example, this book gives you a basic understanding of such issues and the impetus to do more research if needed.
    • 4/5
      I have read several NOLO books over the years and have never been disappointed. "Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law" lives up to that standard. A wide variety of topics are covered--almost anything that you might need legal advice on in your day-to-day life. Chapters include: Houses, neighbors, landlords and tenants, workplace rights, small business, patents, copyrights, trademarks, money, driving, wills and estate planning, health care directives and powers of attorney, "older Americans," spouses and partners, parents and children, courts and mediation, and criminal law.In typical NOLO fashion, the book is presented in a straight forward way for people without a legal background and is organized in a simple way to make it easy to quickly locate what you need.