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Location:
Western Mass Legal Services 127 State Street 4th Floor (Main) Springfield, MA 01040 |
Mailing Address:
ATTENTION:
Western Mass Legal Services 127 State Street 4th Floor (Main) Springfield, MA 01040 |
Telephone Numbers and Contact information
Phone #:(413) 781-7814 Springfield-Main Office, Hampden County
Phone #:(413) 584-4034 Northampton Office-Hampshire Co.
Phone #:(413) 499-1509 Pittsfield Office-Berkshire Co.
Phone #:(413) 774-3747 Satellite Greenfield Office-Franklin Co.
Phone #:(413) 533-2660 Hotline
Fax Number:(413) 746-3221
Web Page:
www.wmls.org
E-mail to:
None Listed
Program Details:
Operating Agency:
Western Mass Legal Services (Private, Non-Profit)
Person In Charge:
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Hours:
WMLS 9:00 to 5:00 Mon-Fri, Greenfield Mon -Thurs 9-1, or by appointment.
Intake Hours at Mass Justice Project M, Tues, Thurs 9:30-12:15
Eligibility:
Low-income community citizens (125 % of poverty level) and elders
Fees:
None for legal services
Intake Process:
Call for appointment. Cases are referred through intake unit
Program Licenses:
Staff Qualifications:
Service Area:
Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire Counties
Handicap Accessibility:
Program/Service Notes:
Wheel Chair accessible, Accessible parking, on bus route.
Most initial inquiries for advice are handled by The Massachusetts Justice Project, which refers cases to WMLS which are in WMLS priorities. To avoid being transferred back and forth, client should call Mass. Justice Project 413-533-2660 to have a screening, after which they are referred to the appropriate legal service.
WMLS provides advocacy in the following areas:
-Public Benefits: termination, reduction, denials.
-Housing: evictions, subsidy terminations, problems with admission to public and subsidized housing.
-Employment: unemployment compensation denials, some wage and hour claims.
-Family Law: representing custodial parents in contested actions for divorce, paternity, custody, visitation, child support, child snatchings, quarterly pro-se or do-it-yourself divorce clinics.
-Domestic Violence: assistance to battered women's programs, assistance to victims of domestic violence with family, housing, and public benefit issues, as well as economic development.
-Elder Law: all services listed above, assistance in maintaining personal independence, information relating to Health Care Proxy and Durable Power of Attorney Documents, financial exploitation, abuse and neglect of elders; Declaration of Homestead Information, hospital free care issues and financial planning and advice for nursing home care.
We regret at this time we are unable to accept cases involving personal financial, personal injury, wills, trusts, workers compensation or problems with schools. However our priorities are changing. We will inform the community of new areas of practice as they occur.
This information was last updated on 01/18/2007
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