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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

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

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

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Consumer Law
Legal Representation
Labor and Employment Law
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
General Legal Aid
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Advance Medical Directives
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
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant 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
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
Provides on-site, non-therapeutic, supervised visitation and exchange of children in families that have experienced domestic violence.

Categories

Parental Visitation Facilitation
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance

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

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

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

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Counseling
Welfare Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Advance Medical Directives
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Elder Law
Housing Counseling
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law
Mediation Services including Family (divorce,child custody/visitation, parenting plans), Intergenerational issues (elder care - daily or long term care, guardianship/power
of attorney, financial issues, visitation of grandchildren), Restorative justice - victim/offender, Business and Consumer matters, Employment and work place concerns, Landlord/Tenant disputes, Special education, and Other civil matters.

Large and small group facilitation.

Parent education workshop for parents experiencing divorce or have custody/visitation issues.

Family group conferencing.

Conflict resolution training.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Mediation
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training
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
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
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
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Paternity Suits
Legal Information Services
Grandparent Rights
Legal Counseling
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Self Representation Assistance
Family Law Courts
Contested Divorce Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation 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
Contested Divorce Assistance
Paralegal Counseling
Family Law Courts
Uncontested Divorce Assistance
Self Representation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Grandparent Rights
Paternity Suits
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Counseling
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

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

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

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

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

Provides court ordered visitation services to families.

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

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

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

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

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

Parental Visitation Facilitation
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Co-Parenting Workshops

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

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

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