Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal

Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal [OLD VERSION]

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If you’re comfortable putting in the time, research, and education it takes, Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal can help you produce certain, simpler, legal documents and avoid the money you might otherwise invest in an attorney. With new document templates, an electronic legal manual, and personal record worksheets, Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal can help make a legal mastermind of just about anyone. Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal has several different help features to assist the…
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3 Responses to “Quicken Lawyer 2003 Personal”

  1. Yauvani says:
    November 28, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    This software made my attorney blush! I had previously used Family Lawyer to create estate planning papers that, upon my attorney’s review, were filled with so many legal errors that they were useless. So I turned to Quicken Lawyer — what a difference a software package can make! Each time I wanted a form it took me through a series of questions and answers, and whenever I had a problem or questions I could find answers in the sidebars. Best of all my attorney couldn’t find any errors, he just confirmed that I wanted what I was stating in the documents! I can’t recommend this package enough. Never has a single purchase seemed so valuable.

  2. Gustav says:
    November 28, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    I bought this product and have been *very* happy with it. I was able to do wills for both my wife and I in the matter of an afternoon for less than [$] bucks. I found the interface of the program extremely user friendly and easy to understand. Also, it is loaded with legal info about all kinds of stuff including legal definitions of terms, which I found useful since most legal jargon is unreadable by me. It is just a fantastic product all around.

  3. Anonymous says:
    November 28, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    BOTTOM LINE: Quicken Lawyer Personal (’QLP’) is a great, low-cost alternative to hiring a lawyer to prepare your basic estate planning document, which will run you a minimum of several hundred dollars. It takes just minutes to prepare a will, but its legal manual/support resources are extensive enough for those that want to spend much more time understanding the what/why behind their documents. QLP is published by Nolo Press, a well established publisher of self-help legal books. QLP begins by walking you through a number of typical life-stage situations (i. e. young w/ no kids, married w/ kids, etc. ) and comes up with a list of suggested documents and along the way explains why you might need each of these documents. When creating a particular document, the software writes all of the legal language for you – you do not write a single word of legalese – and docs are tailored to each state’s requirements. To get information from you and have you make decisions about the content/structure of your documents, QLP follows the typical “interview” format – easy to use and informative along the way. My wife and I each created wills, healthcare directives and powers of attorney in about an hour or two. PROS:- Ease of use: idiot-proof interview format- Legal help: good offline manual, good resources at Nolo website- Clear execution information: tells you exactly what each document needs to be put into effect (some need notarization, some need just witnesses)- Address book: enter a person’s info (i. e. your spouse) and don’t need to enter again in other parts of same doc or other docsQLP is primarily estate planning software. It has a few of the most important ancillary documents (Child Care Agreement, Limited POA for Finances), but Kiplinger’s Home Attorney and Broderbund’s Family Attorney have a full complement of general use form documents. However, if you look through these lists, most are either not really necessary (Trip Permission Slip you can write yourself on scrap of paper or school gives it to you) or are better left to professionals unless you know exactly what you are doing (i. e. residential real estate sales contract and home services contract – too much legalese in there to just print, drop your name in and sign!?). COMPETITORS: As mentioned above, Kiplinger’s Home Attorney and Broderbund’s Family Attorney have a more extensive list of docs (many of which you’ll never need IMHO). Home Attorney came preloaded on my computer so had a chance to try it — not nearly as user friendly, kind of clunky and actually makes you edit the document to enter your name, county, etc – this scares me. Don’t have Family Attorney so can’t comment on its ease of use, sorry. If you really need a ton of general use forms, get Home Attorney or Family Attorney – otherwise stick with Quicken. GET A LAWYER IF: While QLP functions well as an advisor, telling you when you might need certain documents or even specific provisions within documents, it has its limits and is candid enough to admit it during the interviews/tutorials. Get a lawyer for situations like: you expect to owe federal estate taxes ($1. 5 million limit in 2003 and going up rapidly), you own a small business or you expect to have a messy family situation upon death (i. e. an ex-spouse or children that don’t get along) or live in a community property state.

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