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Missouri legal advice and free assistance
Non-profit law firms and attorneys provide free civil legal advice, representation and assistance to low to moderate income individuals, the elderly and disabled residents of Missouri. The goal of these organizations is to provide the highest quality legal services and assistance to families and individuals who can’t afford to pay for their own attorney or legal professional.
While these law firms do handle all civic legal cases, they do have limited funding so priority will be given to those cases that involve employment, foreclosures, utility service shut offs, evictions, public benefits and government programs, employment, domestic abuse, and immigration. Find more detailed information below, as well as how to reach these attorneys.
Housing Assistance
Clients can get free legal assistance in all housing, foreclosure, and tenant matters including landlord tenant disputes, subsidized housing issues, utility bills and service disconnections, fair housing issues, and home ownership matters.
If you rent, get help for renter type issues such as a dispute with a landlord, concerns or issues over rent and security deposits, evictions, lease violations, lease terminations, habitability or safety of the premises, illegal lockouts, and legal help for federally subsidized housing such as Section 8, public housing, and discrimination.
If you are a homeowner, lawyers in Missouri can assist with homeownership issues such as foreclosure matters, mortgage matters, predatory mortgages and lending, and restrictions on occupancy.
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Free Legal Help in Missouri for Consumer Debt and Lending
Non-profit law firms in Missouri provide assistance with debt issues. Some examples of the services you can get help with include predatory lending practices (especially home loans), bankruptcy (which is only for homeowners wanting to keep their homes), deceptive credit card terms, deceptive or fraudulent practices regarding the sale of automobiles and other goods and services, breach of contracts or warranty, wrongful repossession, illegal debt collection tactics (including medical and credit card), the false reporting of information on credit reports, and credit card defense.
Health Matters and Public Benefits
Get support and resources that help deal with health issues for low income families. For example, Missouri law firms can assist with health care cases, income support, government assistance programs, food assistance, Missouri's Medicaid program, TANF, Social Security, and health insurance plans. Paying for health care is becoming a major hardship for many Americans, and attorneys can provide free advice and representation to deal with many of these issues.
Family and Domestic Matters
Lawyers can provide free legal counsel, representation, and advice to low income and other clients in a variety of family and domestic cases including orders of protection, child custody, divorce and dissolution of marriages, modifications, and paternity review and establishment cases. Other various legal needs can also be addressed as well, sometimes by bringing the expertise of lawyers or other professional in other specialty practice areas like public benefits programs, housing or consumer law.
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Missouri Free Legal Services for Elderly and Seniors
Missouri legal assistance programs are available to provide help for a wide variety of problems and concerns that affect the elderly or senior citizens. The services offered do not cost clients a thing. Some of the help includes many of the matters mentioned above as well as free wills, nursing home problems, powers of attorney, health care directives and medical issues.
Contact for legal aid
Legal Aid of Western Missouri - This law firm provides free legal advice and representation to a large part of the state. The cities and counties they cover include Jackson, Clay, Platte, Benton, Camden, Carroll, Cass, Henry, Hickory, Johnson, Lafayette, Morgan, Pettis, Ray, Saline, St. Clair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Putnam, Sullivan, Worth, Barton, Bates, Jasper, McDonald, Newton, and Vernon. While Legal Aid of Western Missouri has several offices, their primary locations are in Kansas City, Warrensburg, St. Joseph, and Joplin. Call them at (816) 474-6750 to learn more or apply for legal help.
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri - Lawyers from this organization provide free legal assistance to the low-income and others in 21 counties of eastern Missouri, including Adair, Macon, Scotland, Clark, Marion, Shelby, Franklin, Monroe, St. Charles, Jefferson, Montgomery, St. Louis, Know, Pike, Lewis, Ralls, Warren, Lincoln, Washington, and Schuyler. Their main offices are in Hannibal and St. Louis. Dial (800) 444-0514 to apply.
Legal Services of Southern Missouri - Covers the southern part of the state. If you live in a county in the southern part of Missouri call this non-profit law firm at (800) 444-4863.
Mid-Missouri Legal Services - If you can’t afford to pay for an attorney, lawyers from this firm provide free support, counsel, and legal advice to the middle part of the state, including Columbia. They offer several different programs and services, and an attorney can be contacted at (417) 881-1397.
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