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Navigating your way through difficult legal issues such as long-term care, estate planning, or social security benefits, as an aging American without adequate support is an overwhelming and...
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a publicly funded, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation established by the United States Congress.It seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing funding for civil legal aid to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it.
Senior Judge Susan R. Bolton: Phoenix: 1951 2000–2016 — 2016–present Clinton: 30 Senior Judge James A. Teilborg: Phoenix: 1942 2000–2013 — 2013–present Clinton: 31 Senior Judge Frederick J. Martone: Phoenix: 1943 2001–2013 — 2013–present G.W. Bush: 32 Senior Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson: Tucson: 1953 2002–2018 — 2018–present ...
Legal aid for civil cases is currently provided by a variety of public interest law firms and community legal clinics, who often have "legal aid" or "legal services" in their names. Public interest practice emerged from the goal of promoting access to equal justice for the poor and this was inspired from the legal services disparity amongst ...
James M. Murphy, the 24th president of the State Bar of Arizona, recounted the founding of the Bar in a 1960 article for the Arizona Law Review: [6] "On the Glorious Feast of St. Patrick in the year 1933, [7] the State Bar of Arizona was created as an integrated legal entity. By act of the Legislature the State Bar became a semi-public body ...
These services are focused on the care of the frail and aging members of society. The program also provides services geared towards the family units of grandparents and other older relatives now in the stages of care-taking for related children eighteen years of age and under. Elder law is an expansion of the traditional trust and estates practice.
eliminates the requirement that qualified housing for persons age 55 or older have "significant facilities and services" designed for the elderly provides "good faith reliance" immunity from damages to persons who in good faith believe and rely on a written statement that a property qualifies for the 55 or older exemption, unaware that the ...
Public defense in Brazil dates back to 1897, when a decree mandated government-funded legal assistance in the state of Rio de Janeiro, then called Legal Assistance (Assistência Jurídica). The Constitution of 1937 extended Assistência Jurídica to the entire country, but without the same effectiveness that is derived from the current, 1988 ...