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Book... plus Cohabitation contract on CD
Love is Love but... Business is Business was written for those who can't get married as well as those who won't... and it was written for those who are unsure and waiting for personal certainty or until marriage becomes their desired choice.
As values and behavior change in our society, young adults place far less value or moral stigma on out-of-wedlock births than do their elder generation. Four out of ten (36.8%) births in the United States are to an unmarried woman. Therefore, nearly half (47%) of adults under 40 have spent a portion of their lives in a cohabiting relationship.
About half of all non-marital births are to cohabitating couples, compared to 15 years ago when it was about a third. Many are unable to marry or establish ordinary civil rights. Many say they aren't sure.
The 40-page book by Merle H. Horwitz, Esq. is his new edition. It is a quick but important read updated from his original book written in the 1980s. The book includes the Cohabitation Contract on CD disk which allows the user to customize the agreement. The forms can be completed without a lawyer and they are applicable in all states. The book and contract are easy to understand and covers what you need to do with: real estate, jewelry and gifts to each other, furniture, leases, bank accounts, investments, season tickets, illness, property rights and liabilities, raising children and most important, how to split up.
The book also covers same sex unions as well as divorce and cohabitation and what arrangements should be considered with Social Security and retirement benefits in a cohabitation arrangement. Also covered are how to protect assets and heirs.
If marriage is not your choice, then Love is Love is a must.
About the Author
Merle H. Horwitz grew up in Pasadena, California. He attended Pasadena City College and graduated from the University of Southern California in the 1950s. Thereafter he attended Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and UCLA.
He became editor of the Century City Bar News and contributed articles to various legal journals. He was editor of the Pasadena Record... a weekly newspaper published in Pasadena in the 1960s as well as a contributing editor to the State Labor News during the same period.
He engaged primarily in trial work representing at times various celebrities in domestic related cases. Merle wrote his first book, one of the Harvey Ace books, which was published by Knightsbridge. Merle wrote the first edition of Love is Love in the 1980s and was among the first in the legal profession to propose that rights arise when people live together depending on individual facts.
Merle was a member of the California Bar, the Beverly Hills Bar and the Century City Bar. His firm grew to 10-12 lawyers and about the same in support staff with offices in Century City and Westwood. He also tried cases in a half dozen other states and wrote another Harvey Ace book and when that all got boring he wrote the Great Deli Cookbook... just to see if he could. It has been a great success.
He won State of California first prizes in art in various mediums in the past...but that is the past.
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