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Probate, Estate Planning & Planning for Illness or Disability: Legal methods for ensuring your assets are passed down to your chosen heirs and how the property of someone who has died gets distributed.

Will & Estate Planning: Legal methods for ensuring that your cash, property, and other assets get passed to your chosen heirs quickly and easily.

Probate of Wills & Estates: How the property of someone who has died gets distributed.

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Utilities

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Utilities: COVID-19 resources for changes in bills including electricity, gas, water, cable, and telephone.

 

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World Social Justice Day - Recognized on February 20th, every year, since 2007 by the General Assembly of United Nations and celebrated since 2009, World Social Justice Day reminds us that social justice, is about fairness and meeting peoples basic needs while being necessary for peace, security, and development of society among the countries of the world (WDSJ.com).

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LIVE ZOOM: Dealing With Debt: Where You Begin

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Ask a Lawyer: How Property Transfers After Death and How to Plan Ahead

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Understanding the courts process

 

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Veterans' Assistance

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Veterans' Assistance: Remote services including financial, housing, healthcare, benefits and claims available to veterans and their families.

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Divorce

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Marriage that is legally ended by a judge's order—also known as "dissolution."

Child Custody: Rights and responsibilities between parents and their child or children.

Child Support: Money paid by one parent to help support their child or children.

Child Visitation: Plan for how parents will spend time with their child or children.

Divorce: Marriage that is legally ended by a judge’s order—also known as “dissolution.”

 

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Conservatorship

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Conservatorship: The legal authority to make decisions for an adult who is unable to make their own decisions.

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