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Assistance programs
Family Law
Financial Law
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Legal Services of Northern Michigan provides a full range of legal services in most areas of civil law for people who meet Federal poverty guidelines or who are 60 years of age or older. These services include: basic discussion of client rights; counseling; preparation of letters, documents, deeds, and pleadings; negotiations; administrative hearings; trials; and, in some cases, appeals, and community legal education presentations.
Legal Services of Northern Michigan does not provide service for criminal cases, traffic tickets or "fee-generating" cases. Services may be limited based upon funding levels and restrictions.
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Legal Services of Northern Michigan offers a new online legal aid and legal help web site. Access the web site at lsnmirp.org for a one on one dialog with an attorney. This service is available for the upper peninsula and Northern lower peninsula
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Free legal representation can be obtained in civil law areas such as:
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- Domestic Relations -
- Divorces involving recent and substantial spouse and/or child abuse; custody cases where there is evidence of abuse or neglect of the children.
- Public Benefits and Administrative -
- Application, denial or termination of FIP, Food Stamps, Supplementary Security Income, State Disability, Emergency Needs, Medicaid, and Unemployment Compensation.
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- Housing -
- Private rental housing including evictions, lockouts, utility terminations and leases, public housing including admission policies, rent levels and evictions; home ownership including forfeitures and government-subsidized home ownership programs; discrimination in any form of housing.
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We would like to thank our sponsors who make these programs possible.
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- Consumer -
- Contracts, debts and repossessions; unfair or deceptive sales practices; unlawful debt collection; finance and installment agreement problems; utility shut-offs; and bankruptcies.
- Healthcare -
- Medicare and Medicaid; health access and private health insurance issues.
- Elder Law -
- Elder abuse; guardian/conservatorship defense; powers of attorney; medical directives; and financial exploitation of seniors. In 2003 19% of LSNM's clients were seniors.
- School Problems -
- Detention, suspension, expulsion or other exclusions; denial of rights and services to students eligible for special education.
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