Sharing Solution, The: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community
About this ebook
You may be motivated and committed to creating a more sustainable lifestyle in your community, but where do you start? And how can you do it without the hassle and legal entanglement that so many greener initiatives seem to require? The Sharing Solution guides you, in plain English, through the steps you'll need to take to create and maintain successful sharing arrangements.
From housing to childcare, cars to lawnmowers, gardens to bike repair, The Sharing Solution gives you the tips and tools to share your resources, while addressing commonly held questions about liability and individual security with compassion. How can you benefit from sharing?
Get help with meals and pet care
Share needed resources in retirement to save money
Buy property with others if you can't afford a single-family home
Work fewer hours while reducing living expenses
Grow your local economy with community initiatives
Plan to make big purchases with others to keep costs low
And, if you're concerned about the environment and want to start living greener, The Sharing Solution is filled with environmentally sound ways to build a more sustainable - and affordable - lifestyle. Get the only book that provides the practical tools you can use to make sharing agreements. As noted author Alice Walker says, "Sharing is the answer "
About the author
Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area since 1989. She is the author of Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce, the co-author of Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership & Civil Unions and The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community, and the editor of many Nolo titles, including Divorce Without Court: A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce and the bestselling Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees Boundaries & Noise. She specializes in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is a graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.
Emily blogs on the ever-changing laws that affect gays and lesbians at Queer Justice: Nolo's LGBT Law Blog. She also blogs on marriage, adoption, parenting, divorce, child custody and child support at Nolo's Divorce, Custody & Family Law Blog, and on practical tips for sharing everything from lawnmowers and land to time and information at The Sharing Solution.
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