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Provides pro bono legal representation to low-income women in final restraining order hearings and other related domestic violence and family law matters. All services are provided on a case-by-case basis.
Offers a wide range of services to individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse. Services include: confidential 24-hour hotline services, counseling, education, specialized children’s programs, legal advocacy, and a Safe House at no cost to survivors and their children.
Provides consultation in obtaining or dropping a restraining order. Also includes information on court procedures, and accompaniment for a client through the court process in the Freehold Family Court.
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.
Provides services for victims of intimate partner violence, family violence, and domestic violence. Services may include advocacy, legal services, access to police protection, and counseling services for both children and adults.
Provides a 24/7 hotline, shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, legal education, courts advocacy, parenting workshops, support groups, and trainings for domestic violence victims. Services are confidential.
Offers individual legal consultations and pro bono services to Sussex County residents within specified income limits. Covered legal issues include family law, bankruptcy, elder law, and expungement, with exclusion of criminal matters. Free legal education workshops and assistance in accessing community resources are available. Additionally, court accompaniment, pro se divorce workshops, and do-it-yourself legal clinics are offered.
Advocates for low-income clients, the Civil Justice Clinic addresses various civil cases, focusing on housing, family, consumer law, probate, bankruptcy, unemployment compensation, social security, SSI disability benefits, and other public benefits. Under faculty supervision, students actively engage in cases such as defending eviction actions, assisting tenants with repairs, litigating to recover security deposits, opposing illegal rent increases, and handling cases related to real estate, home repair, car repair, or purchase scams, divorce, custody, alimony, domestic violence, child support, and social security disability. Students undertake the entire legal process, including client interviews, negotiations, drafting legal documents, and conducting depositions and trials. Additionally, the clinic periodically undertakes broader law reform and impact advocacy initiatives on systemic issues within civil poverty law.
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.
Provides assistance in navigating the legal system and courtroom preparation. Also provides accompaniment and referrals to additional services.
Supports individuals who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse, It offers emotional, vocational, financial, legal, psychiatric, and therapeutic support and services, along with outreach and education. The program addresses cultural, religious, and linguistic barriers that may prevent victims from recognizing or seeking help.
This is not a shelter program.
Provides family law consultations for matrimonial, child support or custody issues, and immigration law. Consultations last about thirty minutes each.
Offers a bilingual domestic violence advocacy and counseling services are available for victims of domestic violence. Along with counseling and advocacy, services may include workshops, support groups, court accompaniment, and linkage to resources.
