Topics (a to z)
Many shlep postings collect links on specific topics that may be of use or interest to do-it-yourself legal consumers, or to people who want to be smarter clients, know more about their rights and duties, or avoid trouble or bad outcomes related to specific laws or consumer issues. Below is an alphabetical listing of many of those postings. Please note: This is not a listing of every topic or area of law that has been covered on this weblog. Our Search Box can help you locate particular subject areas, as well as additional treatment of topics listed below. (Of course, our SideBar has links to sources and materials for many self-help situations, especially those that are aimed at pro se litigants.)
- antitrust law
- bankruptcy self-help
- businesses in financial trouble
- children home alone
- community associations (e.g., condos, coops)
- copy permission and copyfraud
- defamation
- divorce mediation
- divorce self-help
- dogs and the law
- door-to-door sales/cooling off rule
- fair use and copyright law
- grandparent (kinship) guardianship
- grandparent visitation
- guardianship (adult)
- holiday family court disputes
- holiday-season (and internet) shopping information
- identity theft, security freezes
- immigration issues
- name (and gender) changes (here, too)
- land use & zoning, neighbor disputes
- lemon laws (automotive)
- law glossaries
- living trusts
- payday loans (and update)
- personal injury law (and fee negotiation)
- probate & pro se (from f/k/a)
- public records research
- pre-marital agreements, living together
- real estate unbundling and self-help
- search engine privacy
- sexual assault and relationship violence
- vexatious litigation
- wills
The following posts collected links to some court-related self-help issues:
- appellate pro se guidance
- best practices helping the self-represented
- court-based pro se programs described
- helping the pro se defendant
- judge’s role with the self-represented – here and here
- looking good in court
- unbundling at the courthouse (and here, too)
If you want to know more about the kinds of services and projects that exist to help persons who appear in court without a lawyer, see the materials discussed in our posting on court-related self-help tools and the best practices for the self-represented. For help in finding such services in your state or locality, see our getting self-help help page, and the list of self-help Gateways in the SideBar.
