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Jon and Kate Divorce Shines Light on Family Law
The sensational break-up of America's most famous television family again highlights the legal side of family life. According to the San Francisco Examiner, "on Monday, June 22nd, divorce documents were filed in the Berks County courthouse."
In their televised announcement of the divorce, Jon Gosselin said: "Kate and I have decided to separate...I am stil in the show, but we'll interview separately. Nevertheless, apparently, TLC will continue to air the Jon & Kate Plus 8 show. Mom, Kate Gosselin, said (really) "the show must go on."
While the blogesphere and mainstream media is full of angst over whether, on its face, the televising of the Gosselin saga borders on child abuse, will the continuation of the show possibly do some good by illuminating some of the issues faced by children of broken marriages? Divorce, child support and raising good children after bad marriages is part of life. Now, is it possible that the Jon & Kate Plus 8 show might actually live up to "reality?"
Before, during and after a marriage, couples and families experience a romantic, legal and financial relationship. It is a good idea for everyone to learn about the legal side of marriage, such as prenuptial agreements, child care, child custody and for some, divorce and child support. The Rocket Lawyer Family Legal Help Guide is a good place to start.
Lawyers add Easy Legal Documents to any Website and Blog
We're happy to announce that any lawyer can now add a customized easy legal document service to any attorney website or blog! It's simple, just click the link on this widget to get started and add value for every legal website or blog visitor who is looking for do it yourself legal documents.
Plus - whenever anyone needs help with a document, Rocket Lawyer's patent-pending Click-through Legal Review(TM) system can automatically route clients to their favorite attorney to deliver the legal services they need on the spot. For lawyers, adding the legal document service to your site or blog can be another important step toward establishing full service relationships with clients for a lifetime.
Property owner and landlord toolkit for a tough economy.
If you are a property owner or property manager you already know that economic conditions are difficult for landlords. Here is a list of legal documents that can help landlords to protect themselves and their property against late rent, failure of tenants to pay rent altogether and other pitfalls of the slow economy.
Have every tenant sign a lease that has the protections landlords need. A good lease should provide for landlord entry to the premises, clear due dates for rent payments and clear and lawful penalties for failure of the tenant to adhere to the terms of the lease. Most of the up front work for a good lease can be done by the landlord; however, it is a good idea to engage a real estate attorney to help you when you need it.
You can find good sample lease legal forms here, that will create the obligations on the part of the tenant that you need to protect yourself as the property owner.
If a tenant pays the rent late, send a late rent notice like this one to the tenant to demand that the rent be paid, along with any late fees or other penalties provided by the lease agreement. Keep a record of all late notices. A good way to do that is by keeping all of your legal documents stored in the Rocket Lawyer File SafekeeperTM
Lexis-Nexis teams with RocketLawyer.com for easy online legal services!
Lawyers.comsm adds “do it yourself” options for common legal issues
Addition is one element of the new, interactive Lawyers.com legal community site
New York, NY – July 23, 2008 – LexisNexis announced today that Lawyers.comsm, the leading online resource for consumers and small business professionals to find an attorney and legal information, has added access to a comprehensive legal document service that combines “do it yourself” legal forms with online legal document review by real lawyers.
The additions come as part of a larger transformation of Lawyers.com by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® that includes implementation of a variety of new interactive features.
One of the key new capabilities is the Legal Document Services provided by RocketLawyer.com™. This set of services now enable users of Lawyers.com to save time by creating legal documents themselves, as well as accessing fast, affordable legal help online right when needed from Lawyers.com member attorneys.
“Today, more consumers and small business professionals use the web to research legal issues before contacting a lawyer, and with the right tools and services they can often handle simple legal matters on their own,” said Sharon Lubrano, vice-president of Client Development at LexisNexis. “The addition of services from RocketLawyer.com offers Lawyers.com visitors user-friendly online resources so they can act faster and more efficiently on common legal matters. And, they can find and connect with one of more than a million lawyers represented at Lawyers.com via the same, easy to use interface.”
“We’re gratified to provide Lawyers.com users with easy and affordable online legal document services,” added Charley Moore, Founder of RocketLawyer.com. He continued. “Combining our easy online legal documents and our patent-pending “Click-through Legal Review” by real attorneys, with Lawyers.com, now gives Web users everything they need to take control of their legal matters.”
More than just a legal forms site, RocketLawyer.com makes it easy to complete many personal and business legal matters at Lawyers.com. For example, individuals can use the service to set up a last will and testament, create a living will, produce a bill of sale, designate power of attorney and much more. Business can use the service to manage processes such as setting up non-disclosure forms, creating service contracts and employee agreements, producing real estate leases, creating licensing agreements and more.
All of this is accomplished via a powerful set of integrated services, including:
Interactive Legal Forms and Interviews. Users answer a few simple questions and create complete legal documents in minutes. These documents are ready immediately and available anywhere with Web access.
Document Collaboration and Sharing. Users can share documents and collaborate with family, legal counsel and other parties.
Click-Through Legal Review™. Users can access a network of attorneys who can review legal documents online for professional help.
Safe, Secure Online Document Vault. Users get peace of mind by backing up their important papers with FileSafekeeper™.
E-Signatures. Users save time and paper by signing legal documents electronically via a computer, cell phone or PDA.
In addition to new capabilities from RocketLawyer.com, Lawyers.com has expanded its vast database of practice area articles and information for consumers and small business professionals to include:
Life Changing Events – Helpful information on legal issues that arise in most peoples’ lives, such as divorce, starting a business, creating a will and more.
Community and Interactive Features – Interact with lawyers through community message boards, “Ask A Lawyer,” scheduled online sessions to discuss specific legal issues, and more.
Videos - Clips from experts on common legal issues
Blogs – Attorney insights on current key legal issues and trends
On the Docket – Read questions other consumers and small businesses are asking and benefit from the answers
“All of these new elements are great examples of the ongoing transformation of Lawyers.com from a large and useful online directory into an interactive online community where individuals and small businesses can find, discuss, learn and take action on legal issues that matter to them,” said Lubrano.
For more information, contact:
Yolanse Lau Marketing Manager RocketLawyer.com marketingmgr@rocketlawyer.com 415.738.6337
One of the best kept secrets in a world of televised celebrity lawyers in expensive suits is that there are thousands of affordable real lawyers here to help you with your legal questions and issues.While celebrity attorneys may offer general information on TV and on the radio, real people have real questions that are specific to their lives and business matters that don’t fit into neatly canned answers.Real people also have personal and business legal documents that they need a real lawyer to review, revise and complete at a reasonable price.
Until now, these real people with their real legal documents would need to find a lawyer, go to the lawyer’s office (an office that costs money that results in higher legal bills for the client), pay for copies, mail, fax and other expenses, and then wait for the legal document, such as a legal will, a power of attorney, a lease or a business contract, to be finished, often after several weeks.Alternatively, a real person might try a web site that offers do it yourself legal forms.Most of these sites seem to offer nothing more than a downloadable PDF or word processor document, with little legal help and legal information.Other sites might have fill-in worksheets for legal documents and then require the person to wait for the document to be completed offline and mailed to them later.In either scenario, the real person is often left back where they started – needing affordable legal help and not being able to find it.
But wait – there is finally a better way, a way to have the best of both worlds – do it yourself legal documents, plus legal help and legal document review by real lawyers online!RocketLawyer.com offers both easy to use interactive free legal documents that real people can complete as well as click-through legal review by real lawyers.Now, a real person can fill in as much or as little of their legal documents as they feel comfortable with and then find a lawyer to help them online – without the need to visit a lawyer’s office or wait for the mail to complete the legal document.
If you are a lawyer, and you would like to join the growing RocketLawyer.com virtual law office network to begin offering your services online, just start here – and, best of all, it’s completely free for join the network and get a free professional profile here!
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