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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).

Categories

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

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

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

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

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports. Services include:

-- Seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver's licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing.

-- SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions.

-- Special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues.

-- Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues.

-- Tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

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General Benefits and Services Assistance
General Legal Aid
Tax Appeals/Audit 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.

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Family Law Courts
Contested Divorce Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Self Representation Assistance
Paralegal Counseling
Paternity Suits
Grandparent Rights
Legal Information Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Counseling
A third-year law student, under supervision of a licensed attorney, will represent clients in a variety of non-fee generating cases. Civil law cases only, no criminal matters.
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

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Debt Management
Tax Information
Labor and Employment Law
Protective/Restraining Orders
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Consumer Law
Discrimination Assistance
School System Advocacy
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Legal Representation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Iowa State Bar Association offers an online Find a Lawyer program, which refers individuals to lawyers throughout the state. For information, visit www.iowafindalawyer.com or www.iowabar.org, and click on Public Resources.

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Internet Information Resources
Lawyer Referral Services

Offers 30-minute free consultations to any individual with a pre-K-12 education question that meets ERC criteria. Criteria are topics in ERC's expertise that need more time than an email response. Consultations do not include legal advice.

Categories

Education Advocacy Groups
Legal Counseling
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

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Advance Medical Directives
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Legal Representation
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Offers programs for county residents who meet certain income and resource guidelines including general assistance such as rent, utilities, provisions for food and nonfood items, emergency medical and dental services, and funeral expenses. Also includes legal services when funding is available.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Food Vouchers
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
General Relief
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Appointed by the court to represent children in high-conflict divorce or custody matters. Attorneys work one-on-one with children to listen, support, and advocate for child-focused resolutions. The main focus is to understand the desires of the children and to have them communicated to the court during custody cases to help achieve a child-focused result.

Free legal aid for low income veterans, active military, reserve, and National Guard members, and their spouses and dependents who meet income guidelines. Assists with civil legal cases such as family, housing, and consumer law issues as well as military specific issues such as VA benefits appeals and Discharge Upgrades.

Legal issue needs to be resolved in Illinois, but the person can reside or be stationed anywhere. For VA issues, the VA facility that is providing treatment or is part of the dispute should be in Illinois or the client should reside in Illinois.

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General Legal Aid

The Disaster Relief Project provides information and legal assistance to victims of state-declared disasters that result from flooding, tornadoes and other natural disasters.

Offers free legal assistance to victims of state-declared disasters. Also hosts disaster preparedness workshops and presentations for the general public and provides ongoing training and webinars for volunteer attorneys.

With the help of pro bono attorneys, provides information, referrals, advice, self-help services, limited assistance and representation to qualifying low-income victims of state-declared disasters. The type of assistance provided depends upon the situation, the legal issue, and Legal Aid's resources. Services are free to those who qualify.

Common legal issues for which this program provides assistance:

-- Insurance Issues: Includes submitting claims, avoiding public adjuster fraud, negotiating insurance settlements, and filing an appeal.

-- Housing - Renters: Includes identifying the rights as a renter of a damaged unit, facilitating communication with landlords, negotiating early termination of a lease, resolving issues with renter's insurance claims, and recovering personal items from damaged rental units.

-- Contractor Fraud Issues: Includes hiring a contractor and avoiding fraud, reviewing work contracts/estimates, obtaining proper work permits for repairs, passing city inspection, and recognizing and preventing predatory lending.

-- Government Benefits: Includes applying for benefits and/or filing an appeal for denial of benefits, benefit award disagreement, or overpayment notices.

-- Housing - Owners: Includes negotiating payments, understanding a homeowner's options in real estate contracts, and obtaining disaster assistance.

-- Document Recovery: Including replacing lost documents (driver's licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, EBT cards, etc.) and replacing immigration documents.

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Legal Information Services
Post Disaster Legal Counseling Services
Legal Representation
Kids First provides free and reduced-cost representation to children in divorce and custody cases. Kids First's attorneys represent school-age children in high-conflict family law cases in Linn and Johnson Counties.
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

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

Provides a 24-hour crisis line for Latina victims (men, women, children) of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. Individual counseling, support groups, court advocacy, safety planning, community groups, referrals and domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy training.

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Abuse Counseling
Parent Support Groups
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Legal Counseling

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports. Services include:

-- Seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver's licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing.

-- SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions.

-- Special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues.

-- Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues.

-- Tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Categories

General Benefits and Services Assistance
General Legal Aid
Tax Appeals/Audit Assistance

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports. Services include:

-- Seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver's licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing.

-- SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions.

-- Special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues.

-- Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues.

-- Tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Categories

General Benefits and Services Assistance
General Legal Aid
Tax Appeals/Audit 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

Elder Law
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Housing Counseling
Legal Information Services
Legal Counseling
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Tax Information
Will Preparation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Debt Management
Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Volunteers help with a variety of needs for individuals and families dealing with cancer. Sample tasks may include lawn service, snow removal, housekeeping, companionship, shopping, household repairs, health care billing, legal advice, and computer assistance.

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Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
Legal Counseling
Friendly Visiting
Residential Snow Shoveling
General Yard Work

Offers to match the caller's legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller's legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.

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Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Counseling
The County Attorney provides prosecution and victim witness services, and is responsible for enforcement of laws and providing legal advice and defense to the county officials. Some of the duties of the County Attorney include prosecution of all crimes committed in the county; defense of the county in all action brought against it; collection of money due on forfeited bonds; legal advisor for the Board of Supervisors and other county officials in official business; and convene the grand jury.

Categories

General Crime Victim Assistance
Crime Witness Support
Criminal History Records
District Attorney
Legal Counseling

Lawyer referral service for buying and selling real estate, civil rights, consumer problems, contracts, credit problems, local criminal and bankruptcy, divorce, employment problems, family problems, and wills, etc.

Community and mediation referrals.

Information on legal services groups fee based.

No federal worker's comp, school law, or international issues, or HIPPA/Medical Malpractice claims.