Servicemember's Legal Guide: 5th Edition [Paperback]

Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Tomes USA JAG (Ret.) (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0811732320 | ISBN-13: 978-0811732321 | Publication Date: October 14, 2005 | Edition: 5

A straightforward plain-English guide to what members of all the services and their families need to know about the law while serving in the armed forces

Expanded 5th edition contains new material on the laws of war for use by servicemembers deployed to combat

Updated laws on military status, military justice, legal remedies plus loads of personal law-marriage and divorce; family, home, financial, and property law; and veterans' legal matters

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Thoroughly revised with the latest legal guidance, this guide covers both military law and personal legal affairs. An essential guide for servicemen and women in all branches. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jonathan P. Tomes is a former Army Judge Advocate General Corps lawyer and military judge. He currently practices military law in Overland Park, Kansas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Stackpole Books; 5 edition (October 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811732320
• ISBN-13: 978-0811732321
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,037,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jonathan P. Tomes is an attorney admitted in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma who practices in the law firm of TOMES & DVORAK, CHARTERED, in Overland Park, Kansas, in the greater Kansas City area. After he had retired from the U.S. Army as a JAGC officer, having been a military judge (which taught him how to read and interpret government regulations) and having spent several years as a military intelligence officer (which taught him about gathering and using information), he taught law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law before he opened his own private law practice.

Now, he consults and presents seminars around the country on HIPAA and the HITECH Act. He has also served as an expert witness on HIPAA, medical records, and the Federal Tort Claims Act in cases in Illinois, Washington, DC, and Colorado. He has had more than 50 books and dozens of articles published, and two of his novels are now available for your Kindle or Nook: HIPAA Hysteria and JAGC-Off: A Politically Incorrect Memoir of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. Contact Jon Tomes at [e-mail].

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5.0 out of 5 stars Martial Law is not that scary, January 5, 2004

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This review is from: Servicemember's Legal Guide: 4th Edition (Paperback)

I have the 2nd Edition (1992), which probably dated compared to the 4th Ed. Comprehensive introductory comparison between civilian law and UCMJ. It helps to know a little about civilian law and procedure, which, unfortunately, is almost impossible even for licensed trial lawyers to understand (judges and prosecutors are "trial lawyers" too). This book does help break the brainwashing perped by a lying "news" media and Hollywood disinfotainment, and gives useful advice to NEVER trust police, and NEVER speak with police, and to first speak with a lawyer you can trust. Unfortunately, most people never read a law book until it's too late to do much good. This should be required reading for every person before they enlist. Every person should have a law library anyway, for self-defense, since every person must look out for themselves versus criminals and/or government, and EVERY person is robbed by both every year (especially if they don't even know it). There are many areas skipped in the 2nd Ed, like VA benefits being stolen by VA for 100% of disabled retirees (steal either pension or disabilty). Also, vaccine waivers must be signed on first day of enlistment ONLY (US Census reported 320,000 disabled Gulf War Vets as of Census 2000, plus 35,000 dead is reported from gulfwarvets.com). There are, of course, massive areas of law ignored/censored by the authors, especially frauds perped by courts, as in most other "mainstream" law texts. This, fortunately, does not detract from the book, since that other information is available to those to work hard to seek it out. 2nd Ed has good explanation of pretrial strategy for choosing which tunnel in the infinite maze. Since General Tommy Franks was quoted in December 2003 that he wants martial law in USA today, perhaps all US citizens will need this book soon, after all US courts are shut down and replaced by military Civil Affairs courts-martial.