​​​We provide gratuitous legal help to depression-income Northward Carolinians incivil cases involvingbones man needslike safety, shelter, income and more.

We practice non handle criminal cases or ceremonious cases on behalf of prisoners.We do not handle personal injury cases or traffic cases.We exercise not handle divorce, alimony, spousal support and equitable distribution cases except in extraordinary circumstances (learn about our free practice-it-yourself divorce clinics​). Nosotros do non handle new applications for government benefits. Nosotros only handle immigration cases for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and for survivors of human trafficking and their family members.​

Hither is some information about the types of cases nosotros do handle. We routinely reevaluate our example priorities to ensure we are providing the all-time services to our clients, so this list may non include every type of instance we handle. If you accept questions or retrieve you n​eed legal help, telephone call our toll-free Helplineor submit an online awarding​to run across if we can help y'all. Read our not-discrimination policy.

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Consumer

We help our clients go on their essential property and assets

  • Domicile, Transportation and More:We can aid you retain ownership of your home, car or other form of vital transportation, and other essential property past fighting foreclosures and repossessions, and handling ba​​nkruptcies.
  • Debt Collection and Unfair/Deceptive Trade Practices: We tin protect you from illegal debt collections and abusive or deceptive trade practices.
  • Advance Directives: Nosotros can assist y'all create advanced directives -- wills, living wills, powers of attorney and health care powers of attorney -- to distribute your property after death and make up one's mind who can make fiscal and medical decisions on your behalf.

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Employment

We help our clients gain and retain rubber employment, and secure the wages and benefits they are entitled to

  • Unemployment:We assistance our clients receive the unemployment compensation they deserve.
  • Wage Theft: Nosotros help our clients collect the wages that are owed to them.
  • Other:We help clients fight the denial or loss of occupational licenses.

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Family Police

We defend our clients from violence and sexual assault

  • Domestic Violence and Se​xual Attack:Nosotros help secure and enforce court protective orders for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
  • Kid Custody:Nosotros help victims of domestic violence get and obtain custody of their children from their abusers. Nosotros help parents and other caretakers secure custody of children who are exposed to violence, sexual abuse and other danger.

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Government Benefits

Nosotros help our clients retain the benefits they are legally entitled to

  • Denial, Termination, Reduction and Overpayment: We represent people in cases involving denial, termination, reduction or overpaymentof benefits in many federal and land programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Security Disability Income (SSDI), veterans' benefits and more.
  • Affordable Intendance Human activity: We are the leader of the NC Navigator Consortium, a group of health care, social service and legal aid organizations​ that provides free, in-person help to Northward Carolina consumers seeking to enroll in affordable health insurance plans on HealthCare.gov, the Health Insurance Market place​ established by the Affordable Care Act. Visit NCNavigator.net to learn more.
  • Other:We likewise handle cases involving nursing abode and assisted-living discharges, state-funded mental health services, child-intendance subsidies and other services from the N.C. Department of Social Services (for example: non-Medicaid transportation).

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Housing

We help North Carolinians live in safe and affordable homes

  • Public and Subsidized Housing:We handle cases involving evictions from or admissions to public and other federally subsidized housing complexes, and terminations of housing subsidies like Section 8 housing vouchers.
  • Private Housing:We handle cases involving cocky-assist evictions (landlords trying to adios without going through a legal process), habitability (landlords failing to proceed a property safe and in good repair), and evictions from mobile dwelling lot tenancies.
  • Off-white Housing: Nosotros handle cases involving housing discrimination based on race, inability, familial status and more. Learn nigh our Fair Housing Project.

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Other

  • Community Economic Development:We help our clients better their communities by providing limited services in cases involving the evolution of affordable housing, essential community facilities, pedagogy and job-readiness/job-opportunity programs.
  • Human Trafficking:Nosotros assist victims of human trafficking improve their clearing status, obtain permission to work legally in the U.S., obtain refugee certification and more.
  • Immigration: Nosotros help immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, man trafficking and other violence apply for clearing relief for themselves and their eligible family members. Larn about our Dilapidated Immigrant Project.
  • Pedagogy:Nosotros assistance children in public schools go the quality instruction they deserve. We handle cases involving school enrollment, discipline, special education and more. Learn about our Advocates for Children'southward Services project.
  • Expunction:Nosotros help our clients expunge quondam, low-level marks on their criminal records to overcome barriers to employment, housing and more.
  • Migrant Farmworkers:We protect migrant farmworkers' legal correct to alive and work safely by addressing housing problems, enforcing employment contracts, handling clearing cases and providing orientation and education. Acquire virtually our Farmworker Unit of measurement​.
  • Native Americans:We help Native Americans in cases involving federal recognition, domestic violence, adoption, housing, and in cases in the Tribal Court system.​
  • Natural Disasters:We aid victims of natural disasters with problems related to housing, benefits, consumer problems, insurance and more. Visit our Disaster Relief Projection page.
  • Veterans:Nosotros help military machine veterans with cases involving inability compensation, belch upgrades, VA overpayments and alimony benefits. Learn more about our Veterans Law Project.