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Chicago Volunteer Legal Services offers a team of volunteer legal assistants that provide legal services free of cost to low-income individuals.
Services
Adoption Legal Services
Divorce Mediation
Living Wills
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Comprehensive Immigration/Naturalization Services
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
Bankruptcy Assistance
Land Deeds/Titles
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
The Domestic Violence Law Practice at NSLAC provides free domestic violence legal services to at-risk survivors. Domestic violence is any systematic behavior - whether physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual - used to gain power and control over another person. Their team uses a careful trauma-informed approach to mitigate the effects of domestic violence on survivors and their families.
Services
Crime Victim Safety Planning
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Criminal Victim/Informant Visas
Visas for Victims of Human Trafficking
GCLC's Parentage and Child Support Advice Desk helps self-represented litigants with paternity and child support issues in judicial (court) and administrative cases. The Desk can assist with establishing or contesting paternity. The Desk can also help with child support issues, including modifying support, arrears contests, and vacating orders due to service issues, as well as motions to reconsider and appeals of administrative cases.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Life Span's domestic violence legal program is staffed by 15 attorneys, four paralegals, and four criminal court advocates who have expertise and years of experience in contested family law cases and criminal court advocacy. They operate a number of innovative and collaborative programs specifically created to reach underserved populations.Life Span assists with the following: divorce and parentage, child and spousal support, civil no contact orders, Allocation of Parental Responsibilities and Parenting Time (formerly called Custody and Visitation), and more.
Services
Criminal Temporary Protective Orders
Crime Victim Accompaniment Services
Crime Victim Safety Planning
Specialized Crime Victim Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Divorce Mediation
Life Span's domestic violence legal program is staffed by 15 attorneys, four paralegals, and four criminal court advocates who have expertise and years of experience in contested family law cases and criminal court advocacy. They operate a number of innovative and collaborative programs specifically created to reach underserved populations.Life Span assists with the following: divorce and parentage, child and spousal support, civil no contact orders, Allocation of Parental Responsibilities and Parenting Time (formerly called Custody and Visitation), and more.
Services
Criminal Temporary Protective Orders
Crime Victim Accompaniment Services
Crime Victim Safety Planning
Specialized Crime Victim Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Divorce Mediation
Provides assistance in establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support orders under the provisions of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act and the Illinois Public Aid Code through the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Provides legislative and victim advocacy services in addition to child support suits, facilitating criminal prosecution, and a number of additional court programs.
Services
Crime Victim Support
Protective/Restraining Orders
State's Attorney
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Prosecutes criminal violations of Illinois law within Knox County. The office provides services to victims and witnesses guiding them through the legal system.
For cases where a violent crime has been committed and in which criminal charges have feen filed, the Victim Advocate provides:
- Emotional support.
- Court advocacy.
- Service referrals.
- Case status updates.
- Scheduling information for victims or survivors of violent crimes once the criminal case has been filed.
In addition, the office provides child support enforcement services through a joint venture with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Services
Crime Victim Support
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
State's Attorney
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Life Span attorneys provide civil legal services to victims of sexual assault and their families in order to provide them with safety and perpetrator accountability. Legal Services covered include divorce, child custody/visitation/child support, orders of protection, civil no contact orders, and more.
Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Crime Victim Accompaniment Services
Crime Victim Safety Planning
Specialized Crime Victim Assistance
Sexual Assault Protective/Restraining Orders
Divorce Mediation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Ascend Justice provides representation in family law cases involving custody, parenting time, and child support.
Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
- Prosecutes felony, misdemeanor and traffic offenses committed by adults.
- Presents delinquent and abuse and neglect petitions to the judge in Juvenile Court.
- Advises county officials in legal matters.
- Defends the county against civil lawsuits.
- Assists in the involuntary commitment of mentally ill persons into a mental health facility.
- Provides an advocate to assist crime victims and witnesses throughout the course of a criminal prosecution.
Services
State's Attorney
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Protective/Restraining Orders
Crime Victim Support
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
- Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes committed in LaSalle County.
- Advises and represents the County Board and the elected and appointed officials of LaSalle County.
- Assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection.
- Goes to court to collect unpaid child support.
Services
State's Attorney
Crime Victim Support
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child support hotline available to any parent who needs assistance in establishing legal parentage, or establishing or enforcing child support or medical support.
Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement