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Alternatives to Guardianship
A Young adult with a disability turned 18 and needs various estate documents for their selected people to help them make life decisions as an adult. The documents requested and selected agents are listed in the questionnaire. HVL has an online form builder to prepare the documents or templates.
January 17, 2025
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single mother of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has autism, scoliosis, and developmental delay and reportedly functions at an 8-12-year-old level. They speak Spanish. This case needs to be filed in Fort Bend County.
January 15, 2025
This case involves a 60-year-old client who seeks a divorce (with no children) to move forward with his life after being separated from his spouse for many years. Despite the lack of a relationship with his spouse, the legal bond of marriage is preventing him from pursuing meaningful relationships and addressing what he feels is a deeply personal, moral and […]
January 15, 2025
Probate with Will
The surviving wife of a U.S. Veteran, who was married to the decedent for 38 years and who is still grieving his death which occurred in September 2024, needs to probate her husband’s Will.
January 14, 2025
Alternatives to Guardianship
A Young adult with a disability turned 18 and needs various estate documents for their selected people to help them make life decisions as an adult. The documents requested and selected agents are listed in the questionnaire. HVL has an online form builder to prepare the documents or templates.
January 14, 2025
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Veteran father and mother with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has Lennox Gastaut (severe epilepsy) and intellectual disabilities. The child is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They speak English.
January 14, 2025
Probate with Will
Daughter needs help probating her step-father’s Will so she can secure title to the home she’s lived in for decades.
January 13, 2025
Probate with Will
Surviving daughter, who was her mother’s caretaker, needs help probating her mother’s Will.
January 13, 2025
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with co-guardianship. The child has an intellectual disability and is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They Speak English.
January 10, 2025
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Medical-Legal Partnership, seek assistance in being appointed co-guardians of their adult son. The Proposed Ward (PW) has Fragile X syndrome, autism, and ID. They speak Spanish and live in Harris County.
January 9, 2025
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single mom seeks guardianship of her daughter, who is completely bedridden, doesn’t walk or talk, and is fed through the equivalent of a g-tube.
January 8, 2025
IRS Taxes Tax Court
The client is seeking assistance with her U.S. Tax Court case after realizing she omitted income in her original petition. She intends to prepare a new tax return and needs help both with its submission and in communicating effectively with the tax court.
January 2, 2025
Divorce Abuse Custody
By taking this case, you will provide the closure a Fort Bend County victim of domestic violence and her toddler daughter need to embrace a new chapter in their lives. The case, part of the HVL/AccessHealth Medical Legal Partnership, involves a client who seeks a divorce to move forward with her life after leaving an abusive relationship. Custody and child […]
December 31, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Mother with 17-year-old special needs child from the HVL/AccessHealth Medical Legal Partnership in Fort Bend County needs assistance with guardianship. The non-verbal child has autism, intellectual disabilities and other medical conditions and is reliant on his mother for all activities of daily living. The family speaks English.
December 26, 2024
Divorce Custody
This client, a mother of two young children, is navigating the fallout from the collapse of her marriage and is determined to prioritize her children’s mental health and physical safety above all else. Client is a degreed professional from Venezuela who is at a disadvantage only because she doesn’t speak English. The limited work needed is to draft a proposed […]
December 23, 2024
Help a kind-hearted man finalize his divorce so he and his estranged wife can each find peace. Client is in Texas, while his wife is in Mexico – both longing to move forward with dignity and hope. Client speaks English. This case is a part of the HVL/AccessHealth Medical-Legal Partnership. There are no children or property division involved. This case […]
December 19, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single mother with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has global developmental delay, intellectual delay, speech delay, autism spectrum disorder and is mostly reliant on mother for all activities of daily living. They speak Spanish.
December 19, 2024
Divorce Custody
This case presents an opportunity to assist a dedicated mother who is seeking a divorce to protect her mental health and create a stable, peaceful environment for her children. The client’s primary goal is to finalize the divorce as smoothly and amicably as possible, prioritizing her well-being and ensuring minimal disruption for her family. She is a Spanish-speaking mother, so […]
December 19, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single 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. They speak Spanish.
December 19, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has both physical and intellectual disabilities and is reliant on parent for all activities of daily living. She adopted the child. They Speak English. The case needs to be filed in Ft. Bend County.
December 18, 2024
Divorce Custody
Client is a survivor of domestic violence who is working toward legal status in the U.S. for herself and her two sons. Client seeks a divorce from her estranged husband, who is homeless, abusive, and uninvolved in their lives. With family and community support, she can secure his cooperation to finalize the divorce. All that is missing is your assistance […]
December 13, 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 and is non-verbal. He has the mental capacity of a 2- or 3-year-old. They speak Spanish.
December 11, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Spanish-speaking single mother seeks guardianship of her adult disabled son.
December 9, 2024
Divorce Custody
Father of 7 year old daughter needs assistance with a divorce and conservatorship. He speaks Spanish and comes to HVL through the AccessHealth Medical-Legal Partnership. The volunteer attorney will have free access to translation services! The HVL mentor attorney for this case is bilingual and able to assist, as well.
December 2, 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 Trisomy 9 mosaicism, global developmental delay, seizure disorder, and a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt. Child is reliant on mother for all activities of daily living. They Speak Spanish.
December 2, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, need assistance with guardianship. The child has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They Speak Spanish.
December 2, 2024
A woman struggling with homelessness and medical issues needs assistance with a divorce.
November 27, 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 Angelman Syndrome, epilepsy, static encephalopathy and is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They speak Spanish.
November 25, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Applicant and her husband, both Spanish speakers, seek to be appointed co-guardians of their adult disabled son.
November 25, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has Down Syndrome and is reliant on parents for most activities of daily living. They speak Spanish.
November 25, 2024
You can help this young AccessHealth patient in Fort Bend County increase his chances of receiving disability benefits. Suffering from multiple mental health conditions, he needs your drafting skills to make the connection on his disability application between his disabilities and his inability to work. Client has held multiple jobs without success and wants to work, but simply can’t. Your […]
November 22, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Married parents seek co-guardianship of their adult disabled child.
November 20, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with co-guardianship. The child has autism and is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They Speak Spanish.
November 20, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Mother of child with controlled epilepsy, physical, and intellectual disability seeking guardianship of son. Son is reliant on his mother for all activities of daily living. English speaking. From Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership. This case will be filed in Montgomery County.
November 20, 2024
Veteran with disabled adult child needs help with a divorce.
November 19, 2024
Divorce Abuse
After 20 years of marriage, wife, who i homeless, needs help divorcing an abusive husband and starting anew.
November 19, 2024
Wife needs help getting divorced from husband, who is incarcerated, after short term marriage with no children.
November 19, 2024
After many year relationship and marriage, Applicant needs help getting a divorce from husband who is incarcerated.
November 19, 2024
Probate with Will
Applicant needs help probating his parents’ Wills after they passed within a few months of each other.
November 19, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parents with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has epilepsy and autism and is reliant on parents for all activities of daily living. They Speak English.
November 15, 2024
Older applicant needs assistance obtaining simple divorce from husband that left in 2015.
November 13, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has Down Syndrome and Autism and is reliant on parent for all activities of daily living. They Speak English.
November 8, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single mother of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has Kleefstra Syndrome, autism and is reliant on mother for all activities of daily living. They speak Spanish.
October 25, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Single mother of special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has congenital reduction deformities of the brain and is reliant on his mother for all activities of daily living. They speak Spanish.
October 25, 2024
Guardianship of Disabled Adult Child
Parent with special needs child, from Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Legal Partnership, needs assistance with guardianship. The child has an intellectual disability and is reliant on parent for all activities of daily living. They Speak Spanish.
October 25, 2024
Guardianship Adult
Applicant seeks guardianship of her adult disabled son.
October 17, 2024
Probate without Will
Applicant, who lovingly took care of his mother, now needs help probating her estate to ensure that what she left behind goes to his father.
October 17, 2024
IRS Taxes Worker Classification Dispute
The client is asking for help determining whether she will submit a worker misclassification form for the 2 years she worked for a company. In addition, she may need to file an audit reconsideration for the year remembers rolling over her retirement account. She works hard to resolve her problems but after 2 attempts she is seeking help.
June 28, 2024
IRS Tax Issue
The client speaks Spanish and is seeking help determining her collections alternatives for a joint tax liability. Her former spouse agreed to pay the taxes during their 2018 divorce but he stopped making payments and she recently discovered they still owed.
June 25, 2024
IRS Tax Issue
The client speaks Spanish and needs help getting information about her IRS accounts because she recently received a Social Security Number and she was previously using an ITIN. She was asked to wait for her 2022 tax return to be processed and she may owe taxes for 2016.
May 22, 2024
IRS Taxes Examination
The client speaks Spanish and is a father of 2 children. The client is seeking help understanding the US tax system because he arrived in the US in 2021 and submitted his tax return for the same year. He needs help submitting a FOIA request to determine whether he should file an audit reconsideration to dispute the removal of credits […]
May 7, 2024
IRS Taxes Nonfiling Issues
The client speaks Spanish and needs help submitting an identity theft affidavit and filing his 2012 tax return. The IRS prepared a tax return on behalf of the client and the refunds for his kids now go toward the taxes owed.
April 16, 2024
Estate Planning Documents
Assist client with completing will and other estate planning documents.
August 9, 2023