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How To Sue Your Mother-In-Law… And Prosecute
Your Kids: Ready-To-Use Legal Letters To Terrorize
Your Family

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AMUSING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING, How To Sue Your Mother-In-Law… And Prosecute Your Kids: Ready-To-Use Legal Letters To Terrorize Your Family is written by court officer Andrew Harley. The book carries this disclaimer: The Publishers and author accept no responsibility if your entire family disowns you
as a result of reading this book. Just so you know what you're dealing with!

From the publisher of the popular book The Timewaster Letters, How To Sue Your Mother-In-Law is just the ticket for all wives whose husbands maintain they don't know how to turn on the washing machine or refuse to finish their DIY projects. It's also ideal for any husband whose wife can't serve up decent food. And, of course, it is also for daughter-in-laws who want to protest about their mother-in-law's anti-social behaviour on harrowing visits that have led to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

This fun book is divided up into five chapters — including one entitled First Strike and another Retaliation — each beginning with an interest-ing black-and-white illustrative background. How To Sue Your Mother-In-Law… And Prosecute Your Kids: Ready-To-Use Legal Letters To Terrorize Your Family is an hilarious collection of spoof legal letters, forms and contracts that cover all eventualities on the domestic front. Each chapter comes with Guidance Notes — ie, for Bank Reference for Fiancé it is "Ideal For Avoiding Financial Meltdown" and indicates the sender is Female, the recipient Male, the subject is Money and the category Collecting Intelligence. This will help to ensure your intended is solvent before you tie the knot.

There are Cohabitation Agreements, documents to define sexual boundaries and a Personal Hygiene Pledge Card that states: "I will wash daily, change my underpants and use deodorant." Puh-leeeze!

Hollywood is awash with Pre-Nuptial Agreements and why shouldn't you hang on to your hard-earned cash or get out of an unwanted relation-ship in the easiest way possible? The book advises an Agreement that reads: "Upon the day that both parties: a) run out of conversation, and b) resent each other's close proximity, the relationship and marriage shall be pronounced… dead. Maybe it's just that the Breeding Certificate doesn't cut the mustard...

This book will tell you how to return an unwanted item to a dating agency and how to sort out the anti-social behaviour of all members
of the family — and how to make sure your children's friends with behavioural problems are banned from your premises!

Does your partner cook the food you crave? The Home Restaurant Satisfaction Survey will sort out anyone who doesn't come up to scratch. And did your partner miss your birthday or anniversary?
That's covered too, with a nicely-worded letter to the offender.

Ideal for asserting your rights, prosecuting your kids or suing your partner, this book covers you from all sides. There is also a document for children who wants to sue their parents and are demanding com-pensation for neglect (please do not use crayon when filling in this form). After all, it could be that they lacked basic parenting skills — and in particular that they failed to "discover prodigious talent in the claimant at an early age which would have ensured child stardom
and a TV career", thus wasting their children's years and causing psychological damage! As if!

Forget Jeremy Kyle or Tricia — why air your dirty linen in public when you can launder it in the privacy of your own home? Buy this book and if all else fails, launch a nuclear strike…

• How To Sue Your Mother-In-Law… And Prosecute Your Kids: Ready-To-Use Legal Letters To Terrorize Your Family by Andrew Harley, from Michael O'Mara Books, is out now and available from all good bookshops at an RRP of £7.99. ISBN: 978-1-84317-231-4.

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