Family Law Legal Assistance
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America Family Law Center’s mission is to help children by helping their parents and caregivers resolve family situations. America Family Law Center provides legal services through its Assisted Pro Se service program, which is available to paid or comped clients in good standing. America Family Law Center is recognized as the leading, most advanced, and premier provider of Assisted Pro Se services. Understanding how to navigate a divorce, child custody, child visitation, child support, and parental rights can be overwhelming – we are here to help.
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America Family Law Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization whose mission is rooted in the belief that children should have loving relationships with parents or caregivers. Loving relationships between children and parents can continue after divorce or separation. When children are parented safely and lovingly by both parents or caregivers, not only does the child benefit but our society and communities will also be better off.
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Assisted Pro Se service
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When America Family Law Center launched, it modeled its Assisted Pro Se service using the same guiding principles fundamental to the American Bar Association (ABA) Standard for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid. America Family Law Center tracks closely with the ABA on limited-scope representation (see ABA Standard 3.4), legal advice (see ABA Standard 3.4-1 & 3.4-2), and assistance to pro se or self-represented litigants (see ABA Standard 3.5) in family law matters and incorporates this with the effective use of technology (see ABA Standard 2.10).
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The Texas Access to Justice Commission (TAJC) defines Assisted Pro Se as “helping self-represented litigants help themselves with limited assistance from lawyers.” America Family Law Center is recognized as the most prominent and premier provider of Assisted Pro Se services for family law matters.
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Below is an illustration of how America Family Law Center’s Assisted Pro Se service is positioned in the legal services industry.
* TAJF’s income eligibility guidelines for the use of grant funds
** 2023 study conducted by the Texas Access to Justice Commission
*** TAJF’s list of 2023-25 recipients of public grant funds
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The State of Texas so strongly promotes and encourages Assisted Pro Se services that it awards millions of dollars of publicly-funded grants. The Texas Access to Justice Commission went so far as to create a Self-Represented Litigants Committee (“SRL Committee”) and also a subcommittee focused on helping providers with Assisted Pro Se service programs. The Texas Law Help website promotes both free and low-cost Assisted Pro Se services. Both the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOT), through the Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAGF), and the Office of the Attorney General of Texas provide grant funding for many Assisted Pro Se service programs, such as the Texas Advocacy Project, Dallas Volunteer Attorneys Program, Texas Legal Services Center, Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, Boat People SOS, Disability Rights Texas, Houston Volunteer Lawyers, all three major Texas legal aids, legal hotlines, and legal clinics.
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Through its Assisted Pro Se services, America Family Law Center strives to help resolve as many situations as possible collaboratively, without litigation or court involvement. With the help of America Family Law Center’s Assisted Pro Se services, most legal cases are worked outside the courtroom and resolved without a contested trial. America Family Law Center operates as a direct-payer model service, allowing it to be far more efficient and deliver greater value to the client than services based on a third-party-payer model. Please click here to visit our Services page and read more about our Assisted Pro Se services.
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America Family Law Center has served clients for well over a decade with its Assisted Pro Se service, with clients residing in all 50 states. Leveraging advanced technology, America Family Law Center can provide services to people virtually, regardless of location, from the comfort and privacy of their homes via their phones. America Family Law Center’s Assisted Pro Se services are provided entirely by phone, text, or online, not in-person, so you can collaborate with AFLC from the comfort of your home. Trekking to the courthouse or law library to use a public computer kiosk that may or may not be available or working is unnecessary and wasteful and has been outdated for many years. Services that are nothing more than telephone hotlines are also antiquated and often put to shame by Siri, Google, and Alexa.
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Justice Gap
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America Family Law Center encourages those who qualify for and are granted access to free legal assistance to take advantage of that free assistance. America Family Law Center encourages those who have the money to hire a full-service attorney in a traditional manner to do so. America Family Law Center is here to assist those pro se and self-represented litigants with family law cases who do not get free legal aid and cannot afford to pay a traditional full-service attorney thousands of dollars – those in the Justice Gap.
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Family Law Help and Assistance
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America Family Law Center is devoted to helping low-income and underserved people get family law help and assistance. This includes assistance for various family law matters such as child custody, divorce, and parental rights. America Family Law Center’s Assisted Pro Se service is available to paid or comped clients in good standing. Some of the areas of family law the organization can help with include:
- child custody (access and possession),
- conservatorship,
- child support,
- adjudicate parentage,
- divorce, and
- parental rights
- name change
- adoption, and
- kinship placement.
Other Questions – Parental Rights, Child Custody, Child Support, and Grandparent Rights
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Parents and individuals often need additional information about a situation before legal action. America Family Law Center can help provide a better understanding of many topics, including:
- What are my parental rights?
- How do I get custody of my children?
- How do I get child support from my child’s other parent?
- How do I get rid of back child support?
- How do I change my child support?
- What are fathers’ rights?
- How do I stop child support when my son or daughter turns 18?
- How do I establish visitation with my children?
- What is an Acknowledgment of Paternity, or AOP?
- How do I get a DNA paternity test to determine if I am the father or dad?
- What does it mean to adjudicate parentage?
- What does conservatorship mean
- How do I find my child?
- How do I enforce my visitation?
- Can the mother go to jail for not letting me see my child?
- Do grandparents have rights?
- Why might I go to jail for not paying child support?
- Do I have to let my child go for visitation?
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Other Resources
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America Family Law Center collaborates with many other agencies and resources to help people get access to assistance for situations that may involve:
- divorce,
- mediation,
- shared parenting,
- parenting programs,
- parenting classes,
- child support establishment,
- child support collection,
- child custody, and
- visitation.
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Call Today
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We are here to help. Call today to find the help you need.
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