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Local attorneys will be staffing a
Family Law Assistance Center every Wednesday
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Center is located in room
240 of the Ozaukee County Justice Center.
The attorneys cannot give legal advice.
They are available to provide the following help to people who have, or
want to start, family law cases, or file for a restraining order:
- Information about the process, such as:
- How to file a case or request a hearing
- How to notify (serve) the other person
- What happens when you get to court
- What information needs to be provided on the forms to be filed
- Referrals to the State Bar Lawyer Referral and Information
Service for someone who wants to speak to an attorney to get legal
advice
Note that forms and instructions will be provided to you
free of charge if you obtain them at
the Family Law Assistance Center. (You may still need to pay a filing
fee or fee for serving papers on the other person.) You may also obtain
forms from the Clerk of Court’s office, although there will be a charge
for those forms. Forms and instructions are also available online at
www.wicourts.gov.
Volunteers cannot do the following:
- Provide legal advice or recommend a specific course of action
for an individual
- Apply the law to the facts of a given case, or give directions
regarding how an individual should respond or behave in any aspect
of the legal process
- Recommend whether to file a petition or other pleading
- Recommend phrasing for or specific content of pleadings
- Fill in a form, unless required by ADA
- Recommend specific people against whom to file petitions or
other pleadings
- Recommend specific types of claims or arguments to assert in
pleadings or at trial
- Recommend what types or amount of damages to seek or the
specific individuals from whom to seek damages
- Recommend specific questions to ask witnesses or litigants
- Recommend specific techniques for presenting evidence in
pleadings or at trial
- Recommend which objections to raise regarding an opponent's
pleadings or motions at trial or when and how to raise them
- Recommend when or whether an individual should request or oppose
an adjournment
- Recommend when or whether an individual should settle a dispute
- Recommend whether an individual should appeal a judge's decision
- Interpret the meaning or implications of statutes or appellate
court decisions as they might apply to an individual case
- Perform legal research
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