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Servicemember's Legal Guide: Everything You and Your Family Need to Know about the Law »
Authors: Jonathan P. Tomes, Michael Callahan (With), Alice M. McCart
ISBN-13: 9780811732321, ISBN-10: 0811732320
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Jonathan P. Tomes
Book Synopsis
A straightforward plain-English guide to what members of all the services and their families need to know about the law while serving in the armed forces. This new and expanded 5th edition contains new material on the laws of war for use by service members deployed to combat. Includes updated laws on military status, military justice, legal remedies as well as loads of personal law-marriage and divorce; family, home, financial, and property law; and veterans' legal matters.
Author Biography: Jonathan P. Tomes is a former Army Judge Advocate General Corps lawyer and military judge. He currently practices military law in Overland Park, Kansas.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ix | |
| Preface | x | |
| Acknowledgments | xii | |
| How to Use This Book | xiii | |
| Part I | Military Status | 1 |
| 1 | Entering the Service | 2 |
| 2 | The U.S. Constitution and the Servicemember | 10 |
| 3 | Civil and Other Rights | 27 |
| 4 | Discharge from the Service | 38 |
| Part II | Your Legal Remedies | 47 |
| 5 | Claims and Remedies | 48 |
| 6 | Lawsuits | 66 |
| Part III | What You Need to Know about Criminal Law | 81 |
| 7 | Military Justice and You | 82 |
| 8 | Civilian Criminal Justice | 102 |
| Part IV | Personal Legal Matters | 113 |
| 9 | Your Legal Survival Kit | 114 |
| 10 | Marriage | 134 |
| 11 | Family Members | 141 |
| 12 | Divorce and Separation | 148 |
| Part V | Property | 161 |
| 13 | Your Home | 162 |
| 14 | Personal Property | 174 |
| Part VI | Financial Matters | 185 |
| 15 | Debt | 186 |
| 16 | Money | 196 |
| Part VII | Reserve Components and Mobilization | 211 |
| 17 | Reserve Components | 212 |
| 18 | Reservists' Legal Readiness | 217 |
| Part VIII | International Law | 229 |
| 19 | Law of War | 230 |
| Glossar | 238 | |
| Suggested Readings | 251 | |
| About the Author | 252 | |
| Index | 253 |
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