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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).

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Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Housing Counseling
Will Preparation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Elder Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Legal Representation
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Provides answers about rights of landlords and renters; provides inspections, code enforcement, and responds to complaints.

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City Government Departments/Offices
Landlord/Tenant 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

Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Tax Information
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
School System Advocacy
Provides answers about rights of landlords and renters; provides inspections, code enforcement, and responds to complaints.
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Tax Information
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
School System Advocacy
Offers onsite legal assistance at the courthouse during hours eviction hearings are scheduled. Tenants may speak with an attorney for legal advice, help negotiating with their landlord, and possible representation at the hearing (representation is not guaranteed). Follow up case management services may also be offered.
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.

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Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
General Legal Aid
Consumer Law
Labor and Employment Law
Focuses on eviction prevention, landlord and tenant mediation, and information regarding tenant rights and obligations in the state of Nebraska. While this program provides consultation related to the Landlord/Tenant Law, it does not provide legal advice.
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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Housing Counseling
Will Preparation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Elder Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Legal Representation
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Housing Authority, Section 8, HUD Housing, rental assistance and rental deposit through Section 8 and other housing programs.

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Section 8/Rental Assistance Program Rental Listings
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
Housing Authorities
Rent Payment 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

Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Tax Information
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
School System Advocacy
Assist landlords with rental licensing requirements. Also assist tenants with non-responsive landlords in regards to maintaining the unit/structure.
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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Housing Counseling
Will Preparation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Counseling
Tax Information
Elder Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Legal Representation
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Provides legal representation for tenants given an eviction notice due to delayed rental payment associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investigates discrimination in housing as related to rental, sales, and lending transactions.

Inservice programs on fair housing laws for housing providers, human service agencies, etc.

Public education to help the public understand how the Fair Housing Laws protect people.

Community program development to address housing discrimination.

Information on landlord and tenant rights.

Categories

Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing 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

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

Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Protective/Restraining Orders
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Tax Information
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
School System Advocacy
Mediation for dispute settlement, such as divorce, child custody, small claims, consumer business, tenant/landlord, estate settlement and planning, debt, etc.

Elder mediation with families of elderly to make decisions.

Juvenile parole/probation mediation when conflict in the youth's life increases the risk of further law violation or incarceration.

Offers large group facilitation, conflict resolution training workshops, and family group conferencing.

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Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training
Mediation
Rental Inspections Program is responsible for the registration of all residential rentals in the City limits of Marshalltown. Units are inspected approximately every three years for compliance. Staff also respond to written complaints from tenants.

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Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices
The Landlord Liaison Project (LLP) addresses the critical need of finding affordable housing for clients of Matt Talbot who are given a high priority on the city-wide housing list. MTKO cannot take calls from the public to assist in finding housing. We use the coordinated entry system to determine who our housing clients will be and only take on new clients if there are openings. Through this project Matt Talbot staff build constructive relationships with landlords to facilitate rapidly locating stable and safe permanent housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

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Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing Search Assistance
Assists individuals or families who are at immediate risk of homelessness and seeking emergency shelter to identify safe, alternate housing arrangements, and if necessary, connect them with community referrals to help them obtain or return to housing.

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Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Homeless Diversion Programs
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
The Allamakee County Bar Association offers consultation service that provides information to the general public to determine whether an attorney is needed for their particular problem. Attorneys meet with individuals free of charge and provide referrals to legal services, a private attorney, or law enforcement. Attorneys offer advice on family law (i.e. divorce), landlord-tenant issues, lawsuits and small claims, financial problems, consumer law, traffic and criminal violations, employment, public benefits, guardianships of children, restraining orders between adults and adults and children and other areas. The Legal Clinic is open on an as needed basis and is typically open every other Mondays; interested parties must first contact the Clerk of Courts office to sign up for clinic. NOTE: Senior Citizen Legal Services is provided through Northland Area Agency on Aging.

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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
General Legal Aid
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Legal Counseling
Provides education, information, and referrals to landlords and tenants regarding their rights and responsibilities. Also help to explain eviction notices, talk about how to terminate tenancy, explain repairs/maintenance, and explain deposits. Home Inc. is not a legal service and does not have the ability to enforce any laws.

Can provide information and referrals for people who are looking for rental units.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing Counseling
Housing search assists renters, near-homeless, those at-risk of homelessness and homeless individual and families in search of safe and affordable housing and maintenance.

Educates tenants on housing rights, tenant legal reviews, responsibilities, Smart Change Financial Enrichment and housing options.

Housing counseling/case advocates serve clients with Housing Matters Rental Housing Clinics, one-on-one housing assessments, housing affordability, and advocacy.

Assists special populations with housing-related issues including accepting energy-assistance applications.

Second chance tenancy assists renters on options to repair history and create housing options through "good faith" efforts in tenant history repair and "safety net advocacy".

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Housing Search Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Provides assistance to landlords in being licensed and to register all of their residential properties within the city limits.

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Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices