50-State Legal Guides
Consumer Legal Guides For All 50 States
Inheritance Law
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ZipCode
- What You Need to Know About Inheritance Law In Your State
- Does Your State Collect an Inheritance Tax?
- What Taxes Need to Be Filed After Someone Dies?
- Who Inherits When Your Spouse or Parent Dies Without a Will?
- What You Need to Know About Probate in Your State
- What You Need to Know About Your State's Small Estates Limit
- What You Need to Know About Creditor's Rights in Your State
Child Custody
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ZipCode
- How to Get Custody of a Child in Your State
- How Courts in Your State Make Child Custody Decisions
- How Does Child Custody Work in Your State?
- Who Claims a Child on Taxes After a Custody Case?
- Can You Change Child Support Payment Amounts By Moving to a Different State?
- How to Enforce a Child Custody or Visitation Order in Your State
Unemployment
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ZipCode
- Coronavirus Update! -- How to Get Unemployment Benefits In Your State
- How Do I Apply for Unemployment Benefits?
- What You Need to Know to Appeal a Denial of Unemployment Benefits
- Am I Eligible for Unemployment Benefits?
- How the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Affects Unemployment Benefits
- Do You Need a Lawyer to Get Unemployment Benefits?
- Finding an Unemployment Lawyer
- Paying an Unemployment Lawyer
- COVID-19 and Unemployment Benefits FAQ
- New Pandemic Unemployment Assistance: Unemployment Benefits for Contractors, Gig Workers, and Self-Employed Workers
- How Much Will I Collect in Unemployment Benefits?
- How Long Will My Unemployment Benefits Last?
- What Do I Have to Do to Keep Receiving Unemployment Benefits?
Wage&Hour
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ZipCode
- What You Need to Know About Minimum Wage, Overtime, and Other Wage Claims
- Am I Entitled to the Minimum Wage?
- Am I Entitled to Overtime Pay?
- What Are My Rights to Tips?
- What Are My Rights to Tips?
- Does My Employer Have to Give Me Breaks From Work?
- Am I Entitled to Paid Sick Leave, Family Leave, or Vacation Time?
- Can My Employer Garnish My Wages?
- What Can I Do If I Am Owed Pay?
- Are My Work Hours Regulated?
- Are My Work Hours Regulated?
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At LegalConsumer.com (a.k.a. "Law by Zip"), we believe knowledge is power. Empowered consumers need clear, up to date, local information about practical, everyday legal questions affecting your life.
We offer information for your state and your county on:
- Unemployment Benefits (including the latest COVID-19 updates from your state.)
- Wage & Hour (Wages, tips, paid time off, overtime, minimum wage, family and medical leave,COVID-19 policies in your state)
- Bankruptcy (How to file, means test for your county, bankruptcy court, your state’s exemptions, lawyers)
- Obamacare (ACA -Affordable Care Act, Rates)
- Inheritance Law (Probate court in your county, small estates, inheritance tax, expedited probate, your state’s intestacy laws)
- Child Custody Law (Visitation, custody of children, family court directory for your state and your county, child custody lawyers)
- Democracy, (Voting Rights in your state, & Local Government for your county and your city)
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Our writers have spent their careers making the law understandable
Our writers and legal editors have years of experience explaining the law in plain English, as both authors and editors of books by Nolo, and writing for LegalConsumer.com.
Albin Renauer. author of our Bankruptcy and Democracy content is the co author of "How to File or Chapter 7 Bankruptcy" and was a key designer of WillMaker.
Liza Hanks has written books on estate planning and inheritance for Nolo and is the author of LegalConsumer's Inheritance Law area.
Lisa Guerrin and Deborah England are employment law experts who have authored and edited several books on employment law for Nolo. They are the authors of our Unemployment Law and Wage and Hour Law sections.
Shae Irving is a veteran editor and author of many Nolo products and is the author of our Obamacare and Child Custody area.
