Provide telephone or face to face counseling for bankruptcy credit counseling. Counseling includes a personal evaluation of your financial situation, a review of alternatives to bankruptcy, and a personal budget plan.

Provides participants with a confidential half hour consultation with an attorney. Areas include: Family law matters: divorce, separation, support, custody, alimony and equitable property division; and other family law issues.

Bankruptcy at LASP provides legal representation in filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy to low-income and vulnerable individuals.

Bankruptcy at LASP provides legal representaion in filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy at LASP provides legal representaion in filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy at LASP provides legal representaion in filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy at LASP provides legal representaion in filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Provides free legal services to low income individuals in civil matters. Services include legal advice, negotiations and representation before agencies and courts. Handled through advice, brief service and/or representation in court: - Representation of plaintiffs in protection from abuse cases - Custody (defendants when other party has legal representation and child snatch cases); pro se assistance for parents wishing to file for custody - Simple Divorce (pro se assistance only) - Welfare: Medical Assistance and Food Stamps denials, terminations, over payments and reductions - SSDI/Supplemental Security Income: Denials, terminations and over payments; assistance with initial applications for homeless persons - Unemployment Compensation denials and overpayments - Housing: Illegal lockouts and landlord utility shut-offs, public housing/Section 8 eviction hearings, poor housing conditions and evictions, mortgage foreclosure - Sheriff's Sales: To prevent loss of personal property or house - Guardianship for incapacitated adults over the age of 60. POA and advanced directives for individuals over the age of 60 Other matters handled through Volunteer Attorney Program (Pro Bono Project) include: - Consumer problems - School expulsions or IEP hearings - Driver's License suspension appeal hearings See MidPenn Legal Services file for brochures on the following subjects: - Government Benefits - Social Security - Medicare - Public/Subsidized Housing - SSI - Utility Bills/Shut-Offs - Bankruptcy - Mobile Home Parks - Divorce Law - Student Records - District Justices - Canceling Contracts - Repossessions - Expulsions - Debt Collection Practices - Right to an Education - Food Stamps - Eviction - Protection from Abuse - Child Custody & Visitation - Buying or Repairing a Car

Services include budget and debt counseling, debt management, foreclosure prevention, reverse mortgage counseling, bankruptcy counseling and financial education workshops. Housing counseling services are available 24 hours / 7 days a week by telephone and Internet or at local offices during business hours.

Handles bankruptcy cases and provides debt counseling.

Handles bankruptcy cases and provides debt counseling.

Handles bankruptcy cases and provides debt counseling.

Provides free personal bankruptcy assistance for individuals facing financial distress.