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

Ilona M. Bray

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You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be easy, right? It's not. Information can be hard to find, the government bureaucracy isn't helpful, delays are inevitable. Worst of all, there wasn't an easy-to-use guide through the process -- until now.

Fiancé & Marriage Visas makes obtaining a visa and green card as painless as possible. It helps you decide the fastest and best application strategy for you, whether you are married or unmarried, living in the U.S. or overseas.

With this friendly, comprehensive book, you can:

understand the immigration process

make your way through the bureaucracy

repare for meetings with U.S. officials

learn how to prove your marriage is real

deal with the two-year testing period

Plus, Fiancé & Marriage Visas gives you helpful advice on protecting and renewing your green-card status. It also provides samples of essential forms, and shows you how to find them online.

The 5th edition is completely updated throughout, covering the latest fees, sponsorship requirements and changes to the application process. It directs you to the most current forms online, and provides up-to-date sample forms to guide you.

Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract

Katherine E. Stoner, Shae Irving

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Write a prenuptial agreement and enter your marriage with eyes wide open.

Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement.
Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. This easy-to-read book covers:

whether a prenup is right for your relationship

how to decide what a prenup should include

how to assemble a draft agreement

how to turn your draft into a contract

tips on negotiating and communicating


The new 3rd edition of Prenuptial Agreements is completely revised and updated to reflect current state laws, plus worksheets are provided as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, as well as clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your unique needs.

List of Forms
Worksheets

Worksheet 1: Financial Inventory

Worksheet 2: Credit History and Spending Habits

Worksheet 3: Financial Outlook

Worksheet 4: Prenup Goals

Worksheet 5: The Basics of Our Prenup

Worksheet 6: Comparison of Prenup to Law

Clauses for Building Your Prenup

A. Your Prenup's Title (Mandatory for All Agreements)

B. The Ten Basic Paragraphs (Mandatory for All Agreements)

C. Optional Paragraphs (Insert After Paragraph 8, Above)

D. Financial Disclosures (Mandatory for All Agreements)

E. Abstract of Prenup

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law (Queer Ideas)

Nancy D. Polikoff

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Part of the Queer Ideas series, edited by Michael Bronski

A persuasive argument for why married couples, gay or straight, should not receive special rights denied to other families

Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for nine months receives Social Security benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support.

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage should not bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships—including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. These relationships, like marriage, are about building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence and nurturing the next generation. Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

"Polikoff wades through legislation and legalese with style and substance, plus a touch of flair. Impeccably researched, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage offers an evocative read that takes in the full breadth of the issues affecting marriage and avoids pedantry while remaining persuasive."
—Publishers Weekly

"Polikoff's argument is provocative, illuminating, and original."
—John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

Sarah Barringer Gordon

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From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery--this time for white women in Utah? And did constitutional principles dictate that democracy and true liberty were founded on separation of church and state?

As Sarah Barringer Gordon shows, the answers to these questions finally yielded an apparent victory for antipolygamists in the late nineteenth century, but only after decades of argument, litigation, and open conflict. Victory came at a price; as attention and national resources poured into Utah in the late 1870s and 1880s, antipolygamists turned more and more to coercion and punishment in the name of freedom. They also left a legacy in constitutional law and political theory that still governs our treatment of religious life: Americans are free to believe, but they may well not be free to act on their beliefs.

Complete Prenuptial Agreement Kit (Book & CD-ROM) (Write Your Own Prenuptial Agreement)

Edward Haman

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Strengthen Your Relationship by Opening the Doors of Communication

A prenuptial agreement is an integral part to starting your marriage off right. It can help open the doors of communication to direct your marriage toward greater understanding and financial success. And when the unexpected happens, a prenuptial agreement can go hand-in-hand with your other estate planning documents to protect you and to make sure you and your future spouse-not the government-control your property.

The Complete Prenuptial Agreement Kit is your guide to constructing the agreement and relationship that you want for the rest of your life.

Protect Your Assets
Ensure that you get to make your own decisions about distribution and division of your property.

Find the Law for Your State
Each state’s laws are listed, providing you with the most current information for your state.

Start Your Marriage
with Openness
Begin your marriage with a greater understanding of each other’s financial
situation and a smaller chance of ending your relationship in a divorce.

Provide for Your Children
Guarantee that children from a previous marriage will be taken care of if you are no longer able to care for them yourself.

Strengthen Your Relationship
As your relationship grows, you can adapt your agreement to reflect your changing lifestyle.

Write a Prenup that’s Right for You
Find everything you need to create and complete your own prenuptial agreement, with step-by-step instructions and samples in the text.

Whether you are about to get married, or already are, use The Complete Prenuptial Agreement Kit to protect yourself, your assets and your loved ones.

Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation

Mindie Lazarus-Black

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By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, "Everyday Harm" studies the limits of what domestic violence law can - and cannot - accomplish. Combining detailed ethnographic research and theoretical analysis, Mindie Lazarus-Black illustrates the ways persistent cultural norms and ingrained bureaucratic procedures work to unravel laws designed to protect the safety of society's most vulnerable people. Lazarus-Black's fieldwork in Trinidad traces a story with global implications about why and when people gain the right to ask the court for protection from violence, and what happens when they pursue those rights in court. Why is it that, in spite of laws designed to empower subordinated people, so little results from that legislation? What happens in and around courts that makes it so difficult for people to obtain their legally available rights and protections? In the case of domestic violence law, what can such legislation mean for women's empowerment, gender equity, and protection? How do cultural norms and practices intercept the law?

The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 (Women in Culture and Society Series)

Martha C. Howell

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Extremely Interesting 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Howell does a great job examining how Renaissance women protected their interests, and the interests of their children. her book is extremely detailed and well researched. Although my historical interests are as far away from Renaissance Europe, this book sure raised my interest level

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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting personal financial affairs--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Historian Martha Howell reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate--and ultimately redefine--property and gender relations.

Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving

Phyl Newbeck

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Recommended 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

A thoroughly researched and interesting account of one of the under-examined mileposts in the still on-going civil rights struggle. Ms. Newbeck evokes the Loving case, as well as its antecedents and successors, in their historical, political and very personal contexts. As noted in the book description, this is also a particularly timely book in light of the current controversies regarding gay marriage.

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This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. The Lovings were not activists, but their battle to live together as husband and wife in their home state instigated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional, which ultimately resulted in the overturning of laws against interracial marriage that were still in effect in sixteen states by the late 1960s.

Florida Divorce Handbook 5th ed. (Florida Divorce Handbook: A Comprehensive Source of Legal Information & Practical Advice)

Gerald B. Keane

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best reading yet on alimony 5 out of 5 stars.
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this book is a must for anyone in divorce, the alimony section is the best yet and ive read everything!

Not a bad choice 4 out of 5 stars.
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Not a bad choice. It's kinda wordy, and uses alot of legleaze, but it answered alot of questions, and got my Ex and I through with out a big $$$ attorney.

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Updated edition. Overview of the Florida divorce process, basic vocabulary, and legal concepts.

Same-sex Marriage: The Moral And Legal Debate (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus))

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just a starting point 5 out of 5 stars.
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The debate regarding same-sex marriages appears as if it will be a huge issue in 2004. For example,at the courthouse in San Francisco performed over 400 marriages (same sex) on February 14, 2004. They normally only perform a little over 400 weddings (opposite sex) a month. This means that many gay couples are committed to each other and want to make it legal in the eyes of the law.

This book takes many point of views - some extremists that feel same-sex marriage will ruin their own heterosexual marriages. Lesbians who feel that the idea of marriage is outdated and repressive to the females involved in it. And some folks who seem to have given this issue a bit more thought and express their viewpoints well.

No matter where you stand on this important issue, you will find an essay that will reflect your view. I would suggest you also read the other essays to find out how other people feel about the issue so when it comes down to debating this hot topic, you will know the various opinions of your supporters as well as your opponents. You'll be able to state your case in a way that should be able to get your point across. I recommend this book highly.

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The issue of same-sex marriage has attracted the attention of the nation and has become one of the most heated social controversies. This completely revised and updated second edition of "Same-Sex Marriage" presents a balanced selection of the latest, the most diverse, and the most clearly argued positions advocated by academics, politicians, journalists, attorneys, judges, and activists.