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Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Supports individuals across New Jersey who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse, with a focus on the Jewish community. It offers emotional, vocational, financial, legal, psychiatric, and therapeutic services, along with outreach and education. The program addresses cultural, religious, and linguistic barriers that may prevent victims from recognizing or seeking help.This is not a shelter program.

Provides services for victims of intimate partner violence, family violence, and domestic violence. Services may include advocacy, legal services, access to police protection, and counseling services for both children and adults.

Provides a variety of legal services that include: immigration, legal education, landlord/tenant matters, domestic relations, and entitlement advocacy.

Provides representation to victims of domestic violence in a variety of matters including final restraining order hearings where both parties have filed for relief, final restraining order hearings involving novel issues of law, motions for reconsideration, contempt hearings, and appeals.

Offers a broad range of legal services at no cost to domestic violence victims and victims of violent crime and their survivors across the State of New Jersey. Practitioners, which may include graduate students, are under the direct supervision of a managing attorney. Applicants can be assisted with final restraining orders, and regarding child custody and visitation concerns, among other topics.

Provides legal services to victims of domestic & sexual violence.

Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

The Essex County Division of Family Assistance and Benefits provides case management and referral services to victims of family violence.

Eases the physical, psychological, and emotional trauma while preventing the recurrence of domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, and human trafficking for victims and their families.Includes services such as operating a 24-hour hotline for crisis intervention, emotional support, information on emergency shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, and other community and social service resources

Provides diverse assistance, case management, and referral programs to the community, offering aid with legal documents like divorce, housing, child support, and immigration paperwork. Additional services include help with NJ SNAP/Food Stamp and NJ Family Care applications, domestic violence advocacy, notary public services, parent education and support groups, post-partum depression support, protective services for parents involved with DCP&P, and translation and interpreting services for court appearances.

Offers a wide range of services to individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse. Services include: confidential 24-hour hotline services, counseling, education, specialized children's programs, legal advocacy, and a Safe House at no cost to survivors and their children.

Provides family law consultations for matrimonial, child support or custody issues, and immigration law. Consultations last about thirty minutes each.

Serves as the New Jersey State Designated Domestic Violence hotline, providing services such as accompaniments, advocacy, counseling, support groups, crisis intervention, and emergency safe housing for victims and their children. The organization also promotes prevention, conducts outreach education, dispels myths, raises public awareness, and offers support for those close to survivors through education, guidance, and counseling.

Advocates for low-income clients, the Civil Justice Clinic addresses various civil cases, focusing on housing, family, consumer law, probate, bankruptcy, unemployment compensation, social security, SSI disability benefits, and other public benefits. Under faculty supervision, students actively engage in cases such as defending eviction actions, assisting tenants with repairs, litigating to recover security deposits, opposing illegal rent increases, and handling cases related to real estate, home repair, car repair, or purchase scams, divorce, custody, alimony, domestic violence, child support, and social security disability. Students undertake the entire legal process, including client interviews, negotiations, drafting legal documents, and conducting depositions and trials. Additionally, the clinic periodically undertakes broader law reform and impact advocacy initiatives on systemic issues within civil poverty law.

Helps domestic violence victims understand their legal rights under the New Jersey Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. Assistance includes obtaining Temporary and Final Restraining Orders (TRO/FRO), advocacy, resources, referrals, safety planning, court preparation, accompaniment, and free legal clinics. Additionally, provides support and advocacy to Middlesex County Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) offices for clients.

Provides in house legal services to those who have cases with a domestic violence component. Also assists with other matters including child support/child custody, divorce, protection orders, and sexual assault cases.

Provides pro bono legal representation to low-income women in final restraining order hearings and other related domestic violence and family law matters. All services are provided on a case-by-case basis.

Provides assistance in navigating the legal system and courtroom preparation. Also provides accompaniment and referrals to additional services.

Provides legal services to clients in need. The school confers three law degrees: Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, and Master of General Legal Studies.

Provides affordable, quality legal representation for immigrants so they do not have to use high priced private attorneys or unqualified notaries. Legal staff accept the following types of cases: citizenship, family petitions, work permits (NACARA, VAWA) and domestic violence cases. The program also organizes between six and eight community information meetings a year to inform immigrants of U.S. immigration laws and report on potential changes proposed or approved by Congress.

Offers victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with counseling services, assistance with court advocacy, and a legal clinic. The program offers clients individual, group and family counseling in both English and Spanish, Assistance at Family Court by a counselor/advocate, a one-time consultation with volunteer attorneys, twice a month (through the legal clinic).

Provides consultation in obtaining or dropping a restraining order. Also includes information on court procedures, and accompaniment for a client through the court process in the Freehold Family Court.

Provides a one-time, confidential thirty minute session for women looking for legal advice. Volunteer attorneys can offer advice on how to approach legal concerns and whether to seek further legal assistance. Areas of law include family law and eldercare law. All services are provided virtually.

Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.