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Administrative hearings about labor, employment, benefits, licensing, have specific requirements and deadlines. This topic covers how the hearing will work, what to bring, and what outcomes may result, as well as how to seek judicial review.

This topic includes adopting a child or adult, challenging an adoption, and other family members’ rights around an adoption.

When you can appeal, when to use a writ instead, how to start an appeal, how to respond to an appeal from the other side, and the process through written briefs and oral argument.

This topic covers the options regarding filing for bankruptcy, dealing with bankruptcy procedure, and the possible outcomes of a bankruptcy.

About getting certificates, cards, licenses, and other official documentation to prove something about yourself or someone else.

This topic covers issues that a consumer might have with shoddy construction work, incomplete construction, or other issues with a contractor’s work or representations about what work they would do. This could include fraud by the contractor.

This topic covers creating and modifying custody, visitation, and child support orders

Discusses the steps necessary to begin, respond to, and prosecute a civil case.

This topic is about getting a conservatorship of another adult’s financial matters, when they are unable to make decisions for themselves.

This topic covers issues around creditors and debt collectors trying to collect on outstanding loans or debts. This includes taking personal property, wages, liens against real property, freezes on a bank account, or other. Options, rights, strategies, and exemptions for debtors facing collection. The repossession of an automobile, in which a lender or leasing company takes a vehicle back after the owner misses a payment.

This topic includes issues with drafting, revising, transferring, or dealing with problems with a deed.

Before a trial, the parties use the “discovery” process to gather evidence, including depositions, interrogatories, request for production of documents and things, and subpoenas. If the responding party refuses, the requesting party can bring a motion to compel them to comply.

This topic covers filing for divorce, separation, or annulment, as well as spousal support.

A party who wins a lawsuit can enforce the judgment — using wage garnishment, bank levies, liens, and other methods to compel payment by the other party. The defendant or “creditor” can claim certain exemptions from collection.

Plans that a person can make for what will happen with their property and responsibilities after they die. It includes topics of how property will be divided among spouses, family members, and other interested parties — and how wills can be written in valid ways in order to spell out a specific plan.

This topic covers how courts work when hearing an eviction (or unlawful detainer) lawsuit between a landlord and a tenant. This includes the rules, processes, options, and other procedural issues that people may need to understand to protect themselves during this kind of court proceeding.

How a person can file pleadings (complaints and responses), motions, and other paperwork with the court during a lawsuit, and the requirement to serve all paperwork on the other party.

This topic covers websites, apps, and other online tools that can help a person deal with a legal problem or to find services that can help them

This topic is about the process and consequences of getting a guardianship of a child (under age 18), contesting one, changing one, and ending one. This includes situations where the child has an estate that is contested or uncontested, where the child has no estate, where there is a temporary or standby situation, and where there is a Guardian ad Litem (in court representation).

This topic covers problems that may occur when a person’s information is used by someone else to make purchases, get credit cards, rent a home, or steal tax refunds.

This topic discusses the available legal research databases

This topic includes issues that a homeowner might have with taking out a mortgage, finding support and opportunities, dealing with scams, keeping up on their obligations, and understanding their options if problems arise.

This topic covers the process of changing one’s name and/or gender assignment by court order or other procedures, such as through marriage or by changing your gender marker on your birth certificate or driver’s license without a court order.

People who have completed their sentence and probation may have options to reduce the effects of those convictions by expunging (dismissing) them, sealing their records, seeking a pardon, and other methods.

How to get, maintain, implement, and deal with issues of Powers of Attorney.

Issues arising when a person may have to go to court to deal with a dispute or violation. This includes the specific procedures to expect for specific kinds of cases, as well as general rules about court procedure to know.

This topic covers options for people dealing with harassment and abuse, including getting protective orders, enforcing them, understanding abuse, reporting abuse, and getting resources and status if there is abuse.

La biblioteca ha traducido algunas de sus guías y artículos más populares al español, cuales incluyen muestras de formularios con el contenido de los formularios traducidos al español también.

Also known as pro se, in pro per, in propria persona.