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This guidebook provides a comprehensive framework for organizing personal, financial, and legal affairs to ensure peace of mind for individuals and their families. Covering topics such as personal history, family history, insurance, banking, investments, retirement benefits, veterans benefits, real estate, assets and debts, legal documents, and medical and final wishes, it aims to help readers systematically gather and document critical information. The book is intended for individuals seeking to organize their affairs and provide clarity and security for their loved ones. It includes practical checklists and advice to simplify the process, emphasizing the importance of preparation in case of unexpected life events.

Estate planning --- Legal documents --- E-books

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Since the thirteenth century, the signature has been used to demonstrate proof of intent. This book puts the concept of the signature into a broad legal context, setting out the purposes and functions of a signature. Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, this book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of the signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways. Following an overview of the historical methods used to demonstrate proof of intent and authentication, the book considers the judicial response to the variations in form that signatures have been subject to over the past two hundred years, from initials, partial signatures, and fingerprints to rubber stamps and typewriting. Past judicial decision-making not only demonstrates the flexibility of the form a signature can take but also confirms that judges had the flexibility of mind to accept the first forms of electronic signature (telex, facsimile transmission) without the aid of special legislation. In this way, the signature is a prime example of the inherent flexibility of the English common law.

Legal documents. --- Documents --- Documents, Legal --- Authentication --- Commercial documents --- Legal instruments --- Legalization