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

Get answers to your legal questions -- in plain English!Find out how to protect your family, your money, your job, and your rightsIf 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

Introduction 1Part I: Basic Legal Stuff 7Chapter 1: All About Our Legal System 9Chapter 2: Do It Yourself: Solving Your Own Legal Problems 25Chapter 3: Solving Legal Problems with an Attorney 35Part II: Laws That Affect Your Daily Life 47Chapter 4: Relationships, Marriage, and Divorce 49Chapter 5: Parenting and Child Care 73Chapter 6: The Law and Your Job 87Chapter 7: Driving and the Law 109Chapter 8: Privacy: Do You Really Have Any? 117Part III: The Law and Your Money 145Chapter 9: So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur! 147Chapter 10: Credit: Getting It, Using It, Losing It, Rebuilding It 167Chapter 11: Smart Spending 189Chapter 12: Buying and Selling a Home 201Part IV: Tough Stuff: Being Sick, Getting Older, Dying 219Chapter 13: Your Health Care Rights 221Chapter 14: Getting Older: We All Do It 241Chapter 15: Estate Planning 273Chapter 16: Death and Dying: Doing It Gracefully 291Part V: Crime and Punishment 305Chapter 17: Do the Crime, Do the Time 307Chapter 18: Juvenile Law: The Times Are Changing 329Part VI: The Part of Tens 337Chapter 19: More Than Ten Ways to Avoid Legal Problems 339Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes Consumers Make When Hiring an Attorney 345Index 351