Legal Forms for Everyone

Whether you are writing a will or getting a patent for your invention, Legal Forms for Everyone contains all of the essential legal forms you need. Step-by-step instructions and thorough discussions of the law enable you to achieve the best results and face simple legal matters with confidence.

Renting an apartment? Buying your first home? Thinking about a will? Legal Forms for Everyone is the ultimate self-help legal guide that will save you hours of research time and money in legal fees. Written by an experienced attorney, this book is complete with the most commonly needed, ready-to-use legal forms and precise instructions on how to use them. Also included is advice about when you should hire an attorney. You will also find handy checklists included on the CD-ROM. Easy to understand and ready to use!

Save hours of research and thousands of dollars in legal fees with the ready-to-use legal forms and concise, practical advice found in Legal Forms for Everyone. This indispensable do-it-yourself guide provides jargon-free explanations of the most common legal problems facing readers today, complete with handy checklists and nearly 40 model forms, contracts, and agreements. Readers will find sample forms for wills, living trust, power of attorney, real estate agreements, lease, bill of sale, property settlement for separation or divorce, and much more, ready to be put to immediate use. All of the forms are completely up to date and contained on a CD-ROM in the most popular word-processing formats for both the Mac and PC. Plus, special chapters provide expert tips for handling an IRS audit, protecting your privacy, and being a smart consumer.

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"Reproducible, ready-to-use forms are accompanied by step-by-step descriptions of the process involved in over twenty common legal issues. . . . Well-designed and easy-to-use . . . for do-it-yourselfers as well as people who have retained an attorney but want to understand what they're paying them to do."

Carl W. Battle is the senior director of patents for Schering-Plough, a large pharmaceutical company. He began his legal career in Akron, Ohio as a corporate attorney for B.F. Goodrich Company and an adjunct professor at the University of Akron School of Law. He has also served as a corporate patent counsel for Rohm and Haas Company in Philadelphia and for Warner-Lambert Company in Morris Plains, New Jersey.

Although Carl Battle enjoys the blend of technology, business, and law he gets from his corporate career, he has diverse interests in the areas of publishing, real estate, consumer protection, entrepreneurship, and community affairs. His writings and self-help publishing activities are part of an overall goal to be creative with law and teach everyone about their basic legal rights. He serves as business manager for National Legal Information Services, a community-oriented legal services firm in Philadelphia that he founded with two law school classmates in 1983. The firm provides a variety of self-help legal information, seminars, and educational law games to teach law to the general public and to children. He is also a cofounder and vice president-general counsel of Fleshtones Products Company, a Black-owned health products company in Hackensack, New Jersey which sells MATCH-PATCH adhesive bandages in five different skin tones for Blacks, Hispanics, and other people of color.

Despite a busy professional schedule Carl is involved in a number of community actaivities, including serving as a "Big Brother" and working with the United Negro College Fund and the National Urban League Black Executive Exchange Program. He serves as vice president of the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association and is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He enjoys writing, teaching, arts and crafts, and outdoor activities.

Carl spent his childhood in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He attended Dartmouth College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry/economics in 1976. He received a Juris Doctorate degree (with honors) in 1982 from the Delaware Law School of Widener University in Wilmington, Delaware. He currently lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. He attributes his success to ambition, working hard, good values, and being a participant.