Florida Family Law Self Help
Here you will find information about local self help centers free and low cost legal aid and family law forms.
Florida family law self help. Self help staff cannot provide legal interpretations or advice. Family courts and services center 601 n. The app puts help at the fingertips. In addition to the assistance provided by the clerk the office of the state court administrator is offering a new resource called florida courts help online and via an app.
Additional resources include a directory of local self help centers web links to free and low cost legal aid mediator search capabilities and guardianship resources. The self help website includes family law forms approved by the florida supreme court. Florida courts help seeks to help floridians who represent themselves in family law cases. The app offers in one place information for people seeking a divorce adoption orders of protection name change and other family law issues.
Please note that the information provided through the self help app or the website is not legal advice and should not be considered as such. The public is able to get answers for a variety of civil and family legal matters including divorce child support and alimony. Self help staff cannot provide legal interpretations or advice. The clerk s self help center provides low cost legal assistance in family law small claims and residential eviction cases.
Florida courts help offers information for self represented parties with family law cases divorce adoption name change custody order of protection and much more. The family court self help program shp originated in 1994 through a coalition between the eleventh judicial circuit and the dade county bar association s legal aid society in response to a need to increase access to the court for self represented litigants srls involved in family court matters. The self help center at the downtown orlando courthouse is now accepting appointments for virtual attorney consultations. The clerk s self help center.
The apopka self help center remains closed at this time. The clerk s self help center provides free attorney consultations. Attorneys will also be able to assist with domestic violence injunctions name changes small claims foreclosures and evictions. This website was designed and is maintained by legal aid center of southern nevada inc a private nonprofit 501 c 3 organization that operates the family law self help center through a contract with clark county nevada.
The family law self help center s mission is to increase informed access to the legal system by providing education information legal forms community referrals and other support services to self represented parties with family law matters in clark county nevada.