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Provides parenting evaluations, custody evaluations, supervised visitation, and individual parenting education. Also able to provide reunification therapy, co-parenting therapy, integrated parenting therapy, as well as therapeutic services for those in the foster care system, and adoptive families.

Categories

Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
The Clerk of Court provides a resource for County residents who choose to represent themselves in court or have questions on divorce, child custody, paternity, grandparent rights. Information on legal fees and costs for hiring attorneys is also available. The Clerk of Court does not give legal advice.

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Contested Divorce Assistance
Paralegal Counseling
Self Representation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Information Services
Legal Counseling
Paternity Suits
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Grandparent Rights
Family Law Courts
The Clerk of Court does not give legal advice but provides a resource for County residents who choose to represent themselves in court or have questions on divorce, child custody, paternity, grandparent rights. Information on legal fees and costs for hiring attorneys is also available.

Categories

Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Paralegal Counseling
Grandparent Rights
Contested Divorce Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Family Law Courts
Legal Information Services
Self Representation Assistance
Legal Counseling
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal services with sliding scale fee payments for custody and divorce challenges.

Programs include:
  • Attorney Referrals
  • Guardianships
  • Adoptions
  • Limited Scope Options
  • Mediation
  • UN-bundled legal packages
  • Education Seminars
  • Legal loans (up to $500)
Provides on-site, non-therapeutic, supervised visitation and exchange of children in families that have experienced domestic violence.
Provides legal representation in civil cases for low-income eligible Story County residents. Services include civil protective orders (domestic, sexual, and elder abuse), dissolution of marriage, child custody, visitation, will, power of attorney, paternity, guardianship, conservatorship, debtor/creditor, landlord/tenant, unemployment benefits appeals.

Categories

Will Preparation Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
General Legal Aid
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance
The County Clerk of Court provides a resource for county residents who choose to represent themselves in court or have questions on divorce, child custody, paternity, and grandparent rights. This office also provides information on legal fees and costs for hiring attorneys. This office does not give legal advice.

Categories

Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Paternity Suits
Legal Information Services
Family Law Courts
Self Representation Assistance
Legal Counseling
Grandparent Rights
Contested Divorce Assistance
Paralegal Counseling
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance

- Adoption: Offers relative and non-relative, second parent, stepparent, adult, and DCFS foster parent adoption services.

- Post Adoption: Families are connected with resources meant to aid in adoption preservation.

- Legal Custody: Helps to provide legal custody to caregivers, whether for a child or disabled adult.

- Guardianship: Helps to provide legal guardianship, which allows the caregiver to make decisions for the child in their care.

Categories

Guardianship Assistance
Adoption Services
Adoption Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Offers supervised visitations and/or exchanges to parents in high conflict or high risk situations where supervision would help the child and or family. Can also be used to help with court ordered supervised visitations/exchanges.

For those outside of Iowa - zoom meeting can be set up for those in need of supervised visits living outside of Iowa.

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Tax Information
Adoption Legal Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Information Services
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Welfare Rights Assistance