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Administrative Hearings and Appeals
Work and Employment Law
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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.

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

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Appealing a Court’s Judgment
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Bankruptcy
Money Debt and Consumer Issues
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This topic covers the options regarding filing for bankruptcy, dealing with bankruptcy procedure, and the possible outcomes of a bankruptcy.

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Birth Certificates and Identity Documents
Family
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About getting certificates, cards, licenses, and other official documentation to prove something about yourself or someone else.

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Building Contractors and Construction Problems
Money Debt and Consumer Issues
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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.

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Child Custody, Parenting Plans, Visitation and Support
Family
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This topic covers creating and modifying custody, visitation, and child support orders

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Civil Lawsuits: Sue or be Sued
Courts and Procedure
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Discusses the steps necessary to begin, respond to, and prosecute a civil case.

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Conservatorship of an Adult – Person and Estate
Guardianship and Conservatorship
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This topic is about getting a conservatorship of another adult’s financial matters, when they are unable to make decisions for themselves.

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Dealing with Government Agencies and Rules
Administrative Law
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Debt, Debt Collection, Repossessions, Garnishment
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Deeds, Title Changes, and Liens on Real Estate
Housing
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This topic includes issues with drafting, revising, transferring, or dealing with problems with a deed.

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Discovery Process to Get Evidence From Other Side
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Divorce, Separation, and Annulment
Family
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This topic covers filing for divorce, separation, or annulment, as well as spousal support.

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Enforcing a Court’s Judgment
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, and Alternatives
Estates Wills and Trusts
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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.

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Eviction and Landlord-Tenant Issues
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Filling Out and Serving Pleadings, Forms, and Court Paperwork
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Free Legal Research Online
Legal Research
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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

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Guardianship of a Child – Person and Estate
Guardianship and Conservatorship
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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).

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Identity Theft
Money Debt and Consumer Issues
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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.

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Legal Research Databases at the Law Library
Legal Research
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This topic discusses the available legal research databases

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Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Liens
Housing
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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.

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Name or Gender Change
Family
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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.

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Pardons and Expungement, Sealing Criminal Record
Crime and Prisons
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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.

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

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Procedures and Evidence: Appearing in Court
Courts and Procedure
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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.

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Protection from Abuse: Restraining Orders
Crime and Prisons
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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.

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Recursos en español
Español
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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.

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Representing Yourself & Fee Waivers
Courts and Procedure
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Also known as pro se, in pro per, in propria persona.

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