How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines: A Layman's Guide to the Law

By Joseph Lyles

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974409111
• ISBN13: 9780974409115
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Access Pub of South Carolina
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

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An absolute "must-read" for any layman

Written by a practicing attorney, writer, and public speaker, How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines: A Layman's Guide To The Law is a no-nonsense, layman's-language summary of common legal myths and sound basic advice for preventing and dealing with a wide range of legal problems. Each one or two-page reflection on a common legal issue that many ordinary people are unaware of is followed up with a summary for quick reference and long-lasting impression, such as "As soon as you hit the choppy seas of marital discord, you should close, suspend, or deplete your joint accounts" and "Never agree to give a statement without first consulting an attorney." True anecdotes include the story of the businessman who tried to end a contract with a uniform provider; in order to be nice to the provider's representative, the businessman wrote a letter saying he was satisfied with the service but wished to discontinue it - only to learn later that he could not legally cancel the contract unless he was unsatisfied with the service, and that he had compromised himself with his own letter. Another story tells the predicament of a man who was robbed, failed to report the crime, and two years later nearly went to jail because the robber had bounced checks in his name. How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines is an absolute "must-read" for any layman, filled with to-the-point cautions, warnings, and just plain sound advice.