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

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