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Gale LegalForms Key Features and Tips Gale LegalForms provides convenient, authoritative means for understanding common legal procedures through access to “attorney forms”. These officially-approved, professionally-written documents are actually used in legal practices! Whether for business, personal, or litigation purposes, each form is conveniently accessible and downloadable in Microsoft Word and/or Adobe Acrobat, as well as other formats.

Search from the Home Page

A simple search is available from the home page; you may choose to search Categories of forms or the Titles of forms. Try each to do a perform a more complete search. Tip: Find state specific forms by searching on your state name; use Categories.

Additional Tools Gale LegalForms offers links to federal and state tax forms, a 50 state attorney directory, and external links to state specific agencies for forms from agencies like the Department of Transportation and Division of Fish & Wildlife.

Need help with legal terms? Check out the Legal Definitions section of the database. You’ll find a huge glossary of legal terms.

Use the Law Digest and Legal Q & A for more help with legal issues.

Browse Forms & Sample Searches The home page offers a Main Categories Browse; just click the topic you’re interested in and you’ll find all available forms for that topic.

Unsure of what search terms to use? Select the tab for Sample Searches.

Not Just Forms! While there are hundreds of legal forms in Gale LegalForms, you’ll

also find many sample letters and checklists. You can use the browse

links to find them but they’ll also be integrated into your search

results. These can be very helpful when dealing with legal issues.

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Results Your results are displayed by Category. Forms specific to your state will give the state name in the category.

Simply click on the form to view the form and its description.

Document Display Our selected form is available as an “empty” form for filling out AND as completed sample for guidance. We also have a few different formats for the forms. Note: Not all forms will have a completed sample.

Each form will also provide a description for further information on uses for the form.

Click on your preferred form format to view it.

Forms Most of the forms are editable, like the example to the right, but there are certain PDF forms where you cannot fill in the blanks electronically. PDF forms are better printed and completed by hand.

Questions? Contact your librarian or Gale’s Technical Support at 1-

800-877-4253.