Provides low-cost legal assistance to low income residents of Tippecanoe County that cannot otherwise obtain an attorney. Legal Aid works in the general area of family law, including divorce, child custody and visitation, landlord/tenant cases, guardianship, adoption, mental commitment defense, consumer debt and small claim defense, welfare CHINS (child in need of services) cases, and some other matters. Does not provide legal advice over the phone, an application must be filled out.the following types of cases shall ordinarily not be eligible for legal aid:1. Fee generating cases, such as contingency cases and shall include those counter-claims and cross complaints that may generate attorney fees as well as cases where an attorney fee is provided by statute or contract.2. Guardianship matters where the size of the estate is sufficient to pay for legal assistance.3. Cases where the matter is generally frivolous or lacking in merit in justice or law, or motivated primarily by revenge or other improper motives.4. Bankruptcy cases.5. Cases where the applicant is entitled to court-appointed counsel paid by the State or County, such as paternity defense, putative father in a adoption, defense of contempt of court on child support, and termination of parental rights, except when Legal Aid is already involved in a related case with the client.6. Tort defense cases.7. Cases where the applicant should be able to receive the assistance of the Prosecutor's IV-D office, such as the establishment of paternity and enforcement of child support collection.8. Most cases in which the applicant wants to sue someone else for damages. These applicants will be referred to small claims court or private attorneys.9. Criminal defense matters.

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