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Senior Citizens' Law Office was founded in 1983 with the goal of providing senior citizens with free legal assistance.
Senior Citizens' Law Office is staffed by attorneys who will provide free legal advice and representation where needed to address a legal problem.
SCLO helps seniors deal with:
- Healthcare: improper billing by healthcare providers, health insurance disputes, denials of coverage, and advice about Medicaid and Medicare programs
- Public benefits: food stamps, Medicaid, veteran's benefits, Social Security and SSI
- Housing: landlord-tenant disputes, public and subsidized housing issues, foreclosures, condemnations and property disputes
- Advance directives: healthcare and financial powers of attorney, cremation authorizations
- Neglect and exploitation: physical, psychological or financial abuse of a senior
- Guardianships: guardianship petitions by a spouse for an incapacitated spouse, guardian ad litem appointments for allegedly incapacitated seniors
- Grandparent adoptions
- Consumer: debt collection, unfair trade practices, lemon law, billing disputes, predatory lending
SCLO does NOT handle:
- Grandparent visitation disputes;
- Grandparent guardianships (contact Pegasus Legal Services for Children or Advocacy, Inc.);
- Domestic relations including divorce, alimony and enforcement of divorce decrees;
- Criminal defense;
- Personal injury (tort) cases
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