- Boone County - Case No: 07E-103056614 - Client seeks to enforce alimony and division of ex-spouse’s retirement account. Ex-husband was ordered to pay $250/month until she remarries. He was six months behind as of October 1, 2007 ($1500) and has a history of late payments.Divorce decree entered in October, 1985 and it was modified in December 1989. Client was supposed to get 1/2 of the retirement account that would have vested at time of divorce, plus interest. (I
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- Crawford County – Case No: 08E-3051388 - Fifty-two-year-old disabled grandmother seeks to adopt two grandchildren. Grandmother has been the children’s legal guardian for the last four years. The children are ages nine and seven. Client’s daughter, who lives in Texas, is the mother of the children. No father is listed on the children’s birth certificates. The mother of the children is a recovering drug addict. The Nine-year-old child is a “crack baby”, who had major surgery for cancer as a young child, is very violent. (I
am interested)
- Crittenden County - Case No: 08E-103061743 - Client is seeking a divorce due to domestic violence. There are two children of marriage, ages 7 and 3. The parties separated on March 25, 2008, due to domestic abuse. Last incident was in December, 2007. He was arrested and charged with terroristic threatening and domestic abuse. He has been out on bail since January, 2008. Client states that he will not contest divorce or custody. She agrees to standard visitation. There are no joint debts or property. (I
am interested)
- Crittenden County - Case No: 08E-103060790 - Client wants assistance filing contempt against ex-husband. Divorce decree entered January, 2007, in Crittenden County. In decree, he was ordered to: 1) give her half of his income tax refund and he is now refusing to give her half, he refuses to tell her the amount of the refund, OCS confirmed that he got the refund (he is allowed to claim children as dependants); 2) pay fees for extracurricular activities on all three children and client has had to pay all these expenses all year; 3) make payments toward her vehicle which he failed to do and the automobile was repossessed. provide her with a vehicle until she remarried, he took out a title loan on her '94 Suburban and it got repossessed last summer, he was to pay off this vehicle and did not do so. (I
am interested)
- Sebastian County – Case No: 08E-3050096 – Fifty-three-year-old wheelchair bound wife seeks divorce from husband of nine years. Husband hit the wife in the jaw with his fist. The wife fell against the washer and dryer and then to the floor, whereupon the husband kicked her in the back. The wife lost consciousness and was unable to breathe. Wife was transported to local hospital by ambulance. Husband has threatened to lock wife in home and set fire to the home. (I
am interested)
- Sebastian County – Case No: 08E-3051569 – Eighteen-year-old wife seeks divorce from Twenty-eight year old husband of four years due to domestic violence. Wife is the mother of the couple’s two-year-old daughter. Husband abused the wife. (I
am interested)
- Sharp County - Case No: 08E-103062086 - Client is seeking a divorce due to domestic violence. There are no children of marriage and there is a history of domestic abuse. The last incident of abuse was April 1, 2008. No police report was filed. They separated April 10, 2008. She has two children by prior relationship. There has been a history of abuse but no police reports have been filed. Client states that husband is stalking her. She did spoke with a police officer who told him to stop. There are no joint debts and the only property together is an automobile. Client states he will not contest divorce.
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am interested)
- Sharp County - Case No: 08E-103060972 - Client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate. Client's mother passed away March 5, 2008. She had no Will at the time of the death. The client is the only child. The client had lived with her mother for over a year and was caring for her. The client’s uncle was granted guardianship of mother on the day she died. He is now requesting through counsel that client and uncle serve as co-administrators of estate. The home at issue is in Sharp County.
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Pro
Bono Coordinator Contact Information
AVLE – Arkansas
Volunteer Lawyers for the Elderly
Catherine Edwards, Director
Toll Free: 1.800.999.2853
Phone: 501.376.9263 Fax: 501.324.2853
Email: AVLEPROG@yahoo.com
Statewide except 8 counties in Central Arkansas
Equal
Access to Justice Panel
Susan Purtle, Pro Bono Manager
Toll Free: 1.800.234.3544 Ext. 4301
Phone: 479.442.0600 Fax: 479.442.0603
Email: probono@arlegalaid.org
31 counties in North and East Arkansas
River
Valley Volunteer Attorney Project
Janet Dyer, Managing Attorney
Toll Free: 1.800.364.1134
Phone: 479.785.5211 Fax: 479.783.0120
Email: VAP@arkansaslegalservices.org
Crawford, Conway, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Scott, Sebastian
and Yell counties
VOCALS
- Volunteer Organization of
Center for Arkansas Legal Services
Angie Moore, Pro Bono Coordinator
Toll Free: 1.800.950.5817
Phone: 501.376.3423 Fax: 501.376.3664
Email: ProBono@arkansaslegalservices.org
35 counties in Central and South Arkansas |
