A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)
by Denis Clifford Attorney, Frederick Hertz Attorney, Emily Doskow Attorney
Publication Date: April 24, 2012

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Protect your rights -- protect your relationship!

Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.

This practical, plain-English guide shows lesbian and gay couples how to:

make practical decisions about living together

obtain domestic partner benefits

make medical decisions for each other when needed

take care of each other's finances when one partner is incapacitated

leave property to each other

have and raise children through adoption, donor insemination, surrogacy or foster parenting

This edition is updated with a discussion of the laws of each state offering either marriage or marriage-equivalent status, covers all the new state laws in recent months, and discusses the pros and cons of entering into a marriage or like relationship.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #472319 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 7.00" w x 9.00" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
by Randy E. Barnett
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The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. From the Commerce Clause, to the Necessary and Proper Clause, to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, to the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has rendered each of these provisions toothless. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost.

Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a practical way to restore them to their central role in constraining government: adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful exercises of liberty. He also provides a new, realistic and philosophically rigorous theory of constitutional legitimacy that justifies both interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning and, where that meaning is vague or open-ended, construing it so as to better protect the rights retained by the people.

As clearly argued as it is insightful and provocative, Restoring the Lost Constitution forcefully disputes the conventional wisdom, posing a powerful challenge to which others must now respond.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #184820 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .94" h x 6.12" w x 9.14" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment

Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment
by Jane Mallor, A. James Barnes, L. Thomas Bowers, Arlen Langvardt
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Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt’s: Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 14e is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 14th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in recent previous editions, the 14th edition includes a mix of actual AND hypothetical cases.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #18682 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.10" h x 8.10" w x 10.00" l, 6.65 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1600 pages

Examples & Explanations: Family Law, 3rd Edition

Examples & Explanations: Family Law, 3rd Edition
by Robert E. Oliphant, Nancy Ver Steegh
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Employing the trusted Examples & Explanations format, Examples & Explanations: Family Law, Third Edition, offers a cutting-edge study aid that will be an asset to any family law class. Fully updated, the new edition continues to identify and explore new trends in family law practice.

Among the strengths of this comprehensive study aid:

• The clear organization and in-depth treatment of discrete topics make it easy for students to understand the nuances of family law.
• It includes central topics such as alternative dispute resolution, domestic violence, alternative reproduction, premarital agreements, and professional responsibility
• Forward looking authors who routinely interview practitioners to discern new trends in family law and family law practice.

New to the Third Edition:

• The alternative dispute resolution coverage has been expanded to include collaborative law and parenting coordination as well as mediation and arbitration.
• The implications for same-sex relationships are discussed in relevant sections throughout the book.
• The coverage of marriage has been substantially updated.
• The treatment of parentage issues has been expanded.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #93399 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.40" h x 6.90" w x 9.90" l, 2.40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 648 pages

Management Principles for Health Professionals

Management Principles for Health Professionals
by Joan Gratto Liebler, Charles R. McConnell
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Management Principles for Health Professionals is a practical guide for new or future practicing healthcare managers. The customary activities of the manager planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings. Students will learn proven management concepts, techniques, models, and tools for managing individuals or teams with skill and ease. The Fifth Edition is loaded with all-new examples from real-world healthcare settings. It addresses the most current topics in health care such as patient safety initiatives, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), revenue recovery efforts, and diversity training.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #215429 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.09" h x 6.03" w x 8.90" l, 1.65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 552 pages

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations)

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations)
by David E. Zulawski, Douglas E. Wicklander, Shane G. Sturman, L. Wayne Hoover
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What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? Interrogation has come under attack as opponents focus on false confessions. However, most cases are still resolved by confession, not forensic evidence. Among the new topics covered in the Second Edition of this bestselling book, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them.

Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book expands on the valuable topics in the previous edition to include discussions of:

Telephone interviewing
False Confessions
Field Interviewing
Sexual Harassment Interviewing
Confronting the Alleged Harrasser
Pre-employment Interviewing
New Legal Aspects
Frequently Asked Questions

Covering the entire sequence of events that occur during the interview and interrogation process, this book provides a realistic building block approach that allows you to move from a preliminary accusation to an ultimate confession by applying practical rules to the process. It gives you the flexibility to select a number of different paths to proceed in an interrogation of a suspect. Useful in both the law enforcement and private sectors, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition allows you to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses, suspects, and even potential employees.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #43161 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.33" h x 6.52" w x 9.56" l, 2.08 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 552 pages

Fiance & Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration

Fiance & Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
by Ilona Bray J.D.
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Fiance & Marriage Visas makes obtaining a visa and green card as painless as possible for spouses and fiances. Easy to understand, this oneofakind book: demystifies the immigration process, guides readers through the bureaucracy, and provides intensive instructions for each step.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #221337 in Books
• Published on: 2010-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.03" h x 8.40" w x 10.86" l, 2.47 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages