Know Your Rights!

Richard Alderman, "The People's Lawyer," cuts through the legal jargon and helps you protect yourself, your family, and your property. This latest, updated edition gives you practical, easy-to-understand answers to all kinds of everyday questions about divorce, child support, and child custody; credit, bankruptcy, and debt collection; starting a business; leases and tenant rights; small claims court and lawyers; wills and probate; false advertising and warranties; immigration; and many other important legal concerns. Now in its ninth edition, this popular guide uses a simple question and answer format to help you understand and solve many common legal problems. In addition, you get sample forms and model letters, including a living will, a medical power of attorney, and durable power of attorney.

“"This book is better than having a lawyer in the family. Know Your Rights! is more than just "A little bit of knowledge" and not nearly as dangerous. READ IT. That's an order!" ("Judge" Larry Joe Doherty, star of TV's Texas Justice, star of TV's Texas Justice)"The best book in Texas for straightforward answers to legal questions that complicate our lives." (Lynne Liberato, past president, State Bar of Texas)"This book keeps you well informed about your legal rights. This is good and bad for Judges. The litigants are better prepared and so dockets run smoothly... but .... we now have to be even better at what we do. When litigants come in quoting Richard Alderman, I know, I better really be on my toes." (Molly Maness-Barnes, Texas Small Claims Court Judge)”

“This book is better than having a lawyer in the family. Know Your Rights! is more than just "A little bit of knowledge" and not nearly as dangerous. READ IT. That's an order!” ("Judge" Larry Joe Doherty, star of TV's Texas Justice, star of TV's Texas Justice)“The best book in Texas for straightforward answers to legal questions that complicate our lives.” (Lynne Liberato, past president, State Bar of Texas)“This book keeps you well informed about your legal rights. This is good and bad for Judges. The litigants are better prepared and so dockets run smoothly... but .... we now have to be even better at what we do. When litigants come in quoting Richard Alderman, I know, I better really be on my toes.” (Molly Maness-Barnes, Texas Small Claims Court Judge)

Richard M. Alderman is the former associate dean for academic affairs and Dwight Olds Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Since 1980, he has appeared regularly on radio and television stations as "The People's Lawyer." He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Richard Alderman, "The People's Lawyer," cuts through the legal jargon and helps you protect yourself, your family, and your property. This latest, updated edition gives you practical, easy-to-understand answers to all kinds of everyday questions about divorce, child support, and child custody; credit, bankruptcy, and debt collection; starting a business; leases and tenant rights; small claims court and lawyers; wills and probate; false advertising and warranties; immigration; and many other important legal concerns. Now in its ninth edition, this popular guide uses a simple question and answer format to help you understand and solve many common legal problems. In addition, you get sample forms and model letters, including a living will, a medical power of attorney, and durable power of attorney.

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