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American legalese can be hard enough to decipher if English is your primary tongue, but try wading through the statutes and stipulations when you grew up speaking Spanish. The Law and Your Legal Rights is an excellent guide on a wide range of legal issues, presenting complex legalities in easily understandable English in one half of the book, and in lucid Spanish in the other half. Araujo explores the U.S. court system and small claims court, contracts and consumer law, government benefit programs and employee rights, plus bankruptcy, and tenant law. He delves into criminal law and personal injury, immigration laws, motor vehicles, and the complex field of family law. Within this one reference volume you can find information on divorce, plea bargaining, retaliatory eviction, and sexual harassment, living trusts, jury duty, lemon laws, and the right to die. Even when the laws differ by state and Araujo's text is just the start of a long research process, his definitions and explanations provide a clear and reassuring introduction, in Spanish and English, to whatever legal aggravation is interfering with your tranquillity. --Stephanie Gold
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The Law and Your Legal Rights/La Ley y Sus Derechos Legales,
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This review is from: The Law and Your Legal Rights/A Ley y Sus Derechos Legales: A Bilingual Guide to Everyday Legal Issues/Un Manual Bilingue Para Asuntos Legales Cotidianos (Paperback)
The Law and Your Legal Rights should be part of every Hispanic family's personal library. The book provides an easy to understand guide to the rights and responsibilities of all U.S. residents. Its explanation of the U.S. court systems is clear and concise, as well as its narrative of immigration and labor laws. The book's ability to "speak" in two languages--English and Spanish-- is one of its best features since it will help imigrants to obtain a basic understanding of their obligations and rights. Jess Araujo, Esq., has provided the Spanish speaking American with a valuable tool. The book should be read by all American students in middle school and/or high school.
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Great reference book for translators,
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This review is from: The Law and Your Legal Rights/A Ley y Sus Derechos Legales: A Bilingual Guide to Everyday Legal Issues/Un Manual Bilingue Para Asuntos Legales Cotidianos (Paperback)
Every judiciary interpreter and translator (English-Spanish) should have this reference book. It conveys the most important features of the American Legal System in Spanish and English. Because the language is nontechnical is an excellent introduction for language professionals seeking specialization in legal translations.
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En los Estados Unidos de America, la Constitucion es la ley suprema del pais. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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En los Estados Unidos de America, la Constitucion es la ley suprema del pais. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reclamos menores, conductores intoxicados, agencias administrativas, decisiones interlocutorias, casos civiles, interlocutory decision cases, toda persona involucrada, credit disability coverage, casos penales, armas ocultas, menores hasta, puede presentar una demanda, original proceeding cases, del demandado, las leyes estatales, otro delito grave, presentada dentro, vistas preliminares, delito menor, cortes federales, cargos penales, haber residido, juicio por jurado, delitos menores, ley tradicional Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Estados Unidos, United States, New Mexico, New York, Nueva York, Social Security, Statute of Frauds, Bill of Rights, Classification Visa Type, Felonies There, House of Representatives, Decimocuarta Enmienda, Fourteenth Amendment, Latin American, Royal Painting Contractors, Los Contratistas Reales de la Pintura, Charge Sexual, Departamento de Estado, Department of Consumer Affairs, Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Code, Minimum Automobile Liability Insurance Requirements, Misdemeanors One, Painters Etc, Residency Adopting New!
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- Criminal Law (with 2000 Supplement) by EZ Rules on page 320, and page 497
- Black's Law Dictionary, Second Pocket Edition by Bryan A. Garner on page 45, and page 350
- Consumer Law by Changing Times Education Service on page 317
- Casenote Legal Briefs: Criminal Law: Boyce & Perkins by Boyce on page 518
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