Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005M0IB
• Item model number: 380980
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 9, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,046 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Easily create customized wills, powers of attorney, and other legal documents to help you safeguard your family and assets. Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe walks you through an interview process, then completes the documents based on your answers to questions. Preview your document for conformity to legal requirements and check for possible errors before printing it directly from the program. With thousands of document possibilities, you can choose from wills, trusts, health, education, real estates, consumer, business documents, and more.

Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe assists you in determining whether a will or a trust provides the best protection for your family. You can create documents designed to help safeguard your assets, while saving money on legal fees in the process. Video clip answers to commonly asked legal questions are presented from Harvard law professor Arthur Miller (for Microsoft Windows platforms only).

Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe delivers a robust suite of legal tools to your desktop, including The Plain-Language Law Dictionary, an estate planner, a multimedia legal advisor, and a variety of online resources. It also adds printable electronic reference books, such as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wills and Estates and The American Bar Association's Family Legal Guide.

Note: this program is not meant to substitute for the advice of an attorney.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great do it yourself lawyer, March 22, 2002

By 

Tego Venturi "tventuri" (New Mexico USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

The Broderbund Family Lawyer helps you determine which legal documents you may need, explains your options, and walks you through writing the documents (fill in the blank). It also makes your documents specific to the state laws pertaining to you. I have had my documents reviewed by lawyers and never found to have any real problems. So helpful to have around for last minute needs - like child care issues & health care directives. Each document you prepare includes a "how to make it legal" pointers on executing the document.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Legal Eagal, April 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Such a great help. I recently purchased the "Quicken Lawyer 2002, and must admit for the price I paid I was extremely dissapointed. Broderdunds Family Lawyer is "outstanding". Whether you need to create a will, a living trust, child-care agreement, trusts, health, education, real estates, selling your car etc, this is the software you need. I have recently made a lot of personal transactions requiring legal documentation and am happy to say this software has saved my family lots of $$$. It was easy to use, easy to understand, and saved us a ton of money. It can use some very minor improvements, (not worth mentioning) but it's well worth the investment.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Simply terrible, August 21, 2002

By 

David Sweeny (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Lawyer 2002 Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I see people comparing Family Lawyer and Quicken Lawyer and get the feeling that Broderbund is doing a bit of "negative marketing" against Quicken.

I've used both, and Quicken Lawyer far and away exceeded Family Lawyer. Family Lawyer doesn't catch mistakes, isn't up to date and provides several useless forms (like "Personal Fact Sheet" and "Letter to School"). Also, information is sparse and generic, often giving me a form and not showing how to use it.

As a do-it-yourself guy, I picked up Family Lawyer and almost gave up because every time I took documents to my attorney to review, he found dozens of mistakes. Only once I started using Quicken did those mistakes disappear. Thanks Quicken!