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Estate Planning Documents
A disabled single father needs help with estate planning documents.
March 18, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has cerebral palsy, trach, feeding tube and intellectual disability. They speak English.
March 15, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has Down syndrome and she is bilingual. They speak English/Spanish.
March 14, 2024
Expungement
The client is seeking help with a nondisclosure to help her move on from a 30 year old case. She regrets omitting employment income when she was receiving food benefits from the state. She thought she was doing the best for her children.
March 13, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has physical and intellectual disabilities and is non-verbal. They speak Spanish.
March 13, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Mother with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has cerebral palsy and is reliant on mother for all activities of daily living. Applicant speaks Spanish.
March 8, 2024
Probate with Will
Client needs help probating her mother’s will so she can access the two bank accounts.
March 7, 2024
Name Change for Adult
Trans Woman needs a Name Change
March 7, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC), which is a birth defect in the brain; cerebral palsy and intellectual and developmental delays. They speak Spanish. Father speaks limited English. This case needs to be filed in Montgomery County.
March 6, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has autism, epilepsy, and intellectual and developmental delays.
March 6, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has autism, moderate intellectual disability, ADHD and speech impairment. They speak Spanish and do not understand English.
March 6, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent of special needs child from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership needs assistance with guardianship. The child has autism ADHD, OCD, insomnia, intellectual disability and has trouble doing day-to-day activities without assistance. Both the proposed ward and the parent speak English.
March 4, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has down syndrome and intellectual disabilities. They speak Spanish.
March 4, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Applicant and her husband, both Spanish speakers, seek to be appointed co-guardians of their adult disabled son.
March 4, 2024
Divorce Custody
After years in a toxic relationship, wife needs help divorcing her husband and obtaining a support order for their two children.
February 22, 2024
Husband receiving disability is in need of assistance for a divorce. Child is 18yo and will graduate in May.
February 19, 2024
Divorce Custody
Wife/Mother needs assistance with a divorce involving a child and husband’s retirement benefits.
February 16, 2024
Homeless woman needs assistance with a divorce. The parties have no children or property.
February 16, 2024
52 yo quadriplegic needs assistance with a divorce with no children
February 15, 2024
Divorce Abuse Custody
Disabled veteran needs help with divorce from violent spouse
February 15, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has Prader Williams Syndrome, heart problems, pre-diabetes, liver issues, an intellectual disability and has an immobile left hand (due to a stroke). They speak mostly Spanish.
February 8, 2024
Probate without Will
Family of young Decedent, who passed suddenly and unexpectedly, needs help settling her estate.
February 8, 2024
Divorce Custody
Father of 8yo child needs assistance with a divorce. Both parties are low income, and are co-parenting the child.
February 5, 2024
Divorce Abuse
Woman needs assistance with a divorce – no children/property.
January 23, 2024
Probate without Will
Decedent passed while in hospice leaving three adult children to settle her estate including the pursuit of a potential medical malpractice suit involving her care.
January 22, 2024
Probate without Will
Veteran passed leaving two adult children who need assistance probating his estate so they can preserve the family home.
January 18, 2024
Divorce Abuse
Wife is being harassed by husband verbally and through very long text messages, and needs assistance with a divorce with no children or property.
January 9, 2024
Divorce Abuse
Abused wife is seeking divorce with no children or property.
January 9, 2024
Agreed Divorce: Applicant is a veteran who seeks to divorce his wife. There are children and an informal agreement regarding custody. There is little property or debt.
January 8, 2024
Probate without Will
Applicant needs assistance with Application for Heirship and Application for Letters of Administration
January 5, 2024
Probate without Will
Surviving adult son needs help settling his mother’s estate.
January 4, 2024
Vet seeks assistance filing for divorce from abusive spouse of approximately 15 years. Minimal assets, some debt, no children.
December 27, 2023
Probate without Will
Client needs assistance probating her deceased husband’s estate by Application to Determine Heirship and Letters of Administration
November 27, 2023
Vet needs assistance finalizing divorce, one teenage child, limited assets and debts.
November 16, 2023
Probate without Will
Decedent passed in 2022 leaving unfinished business that his daughter now needs help resolving to settle his estate.
October 19, 2023
Chapter Bankruptcy
Veteran needs help with bankruptcy
October 10, 2023
Estate Planning Documents
Assist client with completing will and other estate planning documents.
August 9, 2023
Private Landlord Tenant Eviction
Client is facing eviction. Virtual Zoom representation is needed before the Harris County Civil Courts at Law. Templates and hands-on mentorship provided. Estimated 3–7-hour commitment.
August 2, 2023