Kiplinger's Home & Business Attorney enables you to createprofessional-quality legal documents, and find the answers to your mostimportant legal questions. It's quick, simple, and complete, combiningeverything you need to manage your personal and business affairs. It showshow and when to use legal documents, provides guidance from licensedattorneys, locates your documents quickly and easily, and stores yourpersonal information. (Please note that that this software is notlegally valid in Louisiana.)

The program will guide you through document preparation and provide easy-to-understand explanations with a click of the mouse. It helps you selectthe right state-specific document from more than 2,400 wills and trustsoptions, and assists you in determining what personal or business documentsmeet your needs. Home & Business Attorney also comes with a 5-volume onscreen legal library. You'll find everything you need to effectively and easily handle your personal and business legal affairs.

With Home & Business Attorney's Home Legal Guide, you have instant accessto information on 84 of the most important personal law subjects. You'llfind explanations and discussions that help you affordably and effectivelytake charge of legal matters. Kiplinger's Handbook of Personal Law provideshelp and explanations about your rights and responsibilities in nearlyevery facet of daily life. It's an invaluable and comprehensive guide thatcan serve you for years to come. Kiplinger's Working for Yourself is adefinitive, 26-chapter guide featuring everything you need to make yourbusiness a success, including information on employment practices, borrowing andcredit, sales and marketing, and many other valuable topics. You will alsoget Gilbert's Law Dictionary, a comprehensive reference with over 4,000legal terms and phrases. Each one is explained in plain English by simplyclicking on any legal word in a document.

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I contacted their tech support to report a problem with duplicate icons appearing in the upper left part of the screen (both programs), and to tell them their help topics search feature consistently returned erroneous, duplicate errors (also both programs).

First, they told me to uninstall, turn off antivirus and reinstall, and that would clear it up. When I informed them that did nothing, they told me that yes, both problems existed -- they shipped their products that way -- and would not be issuing fixes for them. See their response:

"Thank you for contacting H&R Block Technical Support.
We apologize that you have difficulty accessing the help topics and for the mysterious additional icons in the upper-left and upper-right of your interface.

The problem of the redundant icons is not peculiar to your machine. They appear to be an artifacts left over from the development process. Unfortunately, there are no updates planned for the Home and Business Attorney products to correct this, but thankfully there are no harmful side-effects to the presence of those buttons.

We were also able to reproduce the the errors when opening various Help topics, which state "Help topic does not exist". We have found that these errors do not occur when the help topics are viewed from the opening menu, where the buttons
"Create New Document", "Open Saved Document", and the others are found. Again, we must apologize that the help topics are of diminished utility when in the actual document being produced."

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Dissappointed!Apr 05, 2002

This is a failed attempt at a good idea. I this software was crude, and not vary flexible or scalable. It lock-up my PC on several occasions, so I finaly had to unistall it to get a little piece of mind. I much prefer Quicken or Broderbund.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

Terrible..what a jokeDec 10, 2002
By Ralph H. Keetch
What a joke. I looked up the document for "reponse to a creditor" and found a useless form that I could have created myself without the help of this waste of money software.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Was apparently written for Windows 3.1Jan 26, 2003
By Todd Day
This software is unbelievably bad. It appears to have been written for Windows 3.1, as it cannot deal with anything but 8.3 filenames. The Okay button for many dialogs is absolutely huge and placed behind text entry fields -- must be seen to be believed.

The installer hangs at 99% or 100% under WinXP for at least 8 minutes, then proceeds. It never exits, though, and must be killed with task manager.

I got this software bundled in the Money 2003 Suite, and paid a little extra to get it. Don't know how I'm going to get my money back for it.