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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

Paralegal Counseling
Self Representation Assistance
Legal Counseling
Contested Divorce Assistance
Family Law Courts
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Grandparent Rights
Paternity Suits
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Legal Information Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
The Child Support Recovery Office establishes child support and medical orders, collects payments, and locates non-custodial parents. In addition, this office establishes paternity when necessary.

Categories

Paternity Suits
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement

Works closely with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and other agencies and advocacy organizations to ensure that families throughout the state receive the support they need to raise their children.

Child Support Recovery Unit is a program to assist (both public assistance and non-public assistance) families with child support recovery.

-- Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes committed within the County.

-- Advises and represents the County Board and the elected and appointed officials of the County.

-- Assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection.

-- Goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Crime Victim Support
Public Counsel
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 does not give legal advice.

Categories

Self Representation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Family Law Courts
Legal Counseling
Grandparent Rights
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Contested Divorce Assistance
Accessline provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Elder Law

Elected public prosecutor for Lancaster County prosecutes those who are accused by the police of violating the state criminal code. In order to file a criminal case the prosecutor must believe there is sufficient evidence of the accused's guilt to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

Advises county elected officials on legal matters, conducts the county's civil litigation, enforces child support orders, and files petitions relating to mentally ill persons. No legal advice or representation is provided to individual citizens in private legal matters.

Bad check prosecution of individuals for writing or passing insufficient funds, no account, or forged checks. Aids businesses in reducing the number of bad checks received through education. Businesses or individuals can submit checks to Diversion Services, 4435 O Street, Suite 96, Lincoln, NE 68510, (402) 483-4444, for criminal prosecution of the offender.

Domestic violence prosecutions of offenders of domestic abuse, and assists victims of such violence in prosecuting their cases in court. Appropriate referrals are made to social service agencies.

Juvenile Division prosecutes law violations committed by juveniles, including truancy cases. Brings abuse and neglect cases against parents before the separate Juvenile Court, and files termination of parental rights cases in appropriate situations.

Mental health commitments are initiated through the County Attorney. Mental health proceedings to involuntary commit persons alleged to be mentally ill and dangerous to themselves or others, and who have refused voluntary treatment for their mental illness.

Collects delinquent child support payments under existing divorce decrees, including contempt proceedings, garnishments, tax intercept, wage assignments, and reciprocal enforcement actions for other jurisdictions.

Establishes paternity, including blood testing, settlements, and trials, if necessary.

Obtains child support orders and modifications in appropriate situations.

Categories

Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Involuntary Psychiatric Intervention
Public Counsel
Genetic Testing and Screening
Child Support Recovery Unit is a program to assist (both public assistance and non-public assistance) families with child support recovery.

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Categories

Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Protective/Restraining Orders
Health Related Advocacy Groups

Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.

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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
School System Advocacy
Legal Information Services
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
Debt Management
Discrimination Assistance
General Legal Aid
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Represents people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. Public defenders are appointed by the court to represent people in felony, misdemeanor, traffic, child abuse and neglect, child delinquency, post-conviction, and other offenses.

Categories

Crime Victim Support
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement

Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes within the county, assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection, and goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Categories

Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Crime Victim Support
Public Counsel
Protective/Restraining Orders
Assistance to establish paternity and child support orders, and to collect child support payments.

Categories

Genetic Testing and Screening
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
School System Advocacy
Legal Information Services
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
Debt Management
Discrimination Assistance
General Legal Aid
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Child Support Recovery Unit is a program to assist (both public assistance and non-public assistance) families with child support recovery.

Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes within the county, assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection, and goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Crime Victim Support
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

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

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

Voice Response Unit provides information regarding:
Option 1: Payment Information available Mon-Sun 24 hours - Caller must have a Nebraska Court Order number to use this option (otherwise caller must press option 2); payment information; and current balance.

Option 2: Questions Regarding Child Support Case - Case status; review and modification; intergovernmental cases (out-of-state court orders); enforcement actions (income withholding, credit reporting, etc.); license suspension; payment history requests; address/name/employment changes.

Option 3: Questions Regarding Payments/Employers - Direct deposit or auto withdrawal, electronic payment card (EPC), credit card user ID; website or online payments; requests for user ID's and passwords for website; lost, stolen, or damaged checks; payments received and/or disbursed; and billing statements.

Option 4: General Information - General information regarding child support; enforcement offices, hours of operation and locations.
Offices that are listed include:
Nebraska Child Support Payment Center
Nebraska Customer Service Call Center
Child Support Enforcement Offices; and
Clerk of the District Court Offices.

Option 5: Another IV-D Agency - Information provided to other State Child Support Enforcement agencies.

Categories

Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Genetic Testing and Screening
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

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

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Categories

Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Protective/Restraining Orders
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Accessline provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Elder Law
Accessline provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Elder Law