PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Legal Aid Society provides free legal advice and assistance to disadvantaged people who are serving in a caregiver role. To see if you are eligible for Legal Aid help, please call (650) 558-0915.

Guardianship Pro Bono Project is directed at grandparents, relatives, and others who are seeking to become a court-ordered guardian. Legal Aid helps in the following areas:

• Prepare court filings
• Petition for guardianship
• Defend a termination of guardianship
• Petition for guardian of the person and of the estate

In San Mateo County alone, as many as 10,000 children are being raised by someone other than their own parents.* Many times, guardianship is just the first step in the legal process to securing a child’s well being. In partnership with the Edgewood Center for Children and Family Services, Legal Aid provides ongoing support through counseling services for children and families and developmental and health assessments for children and adult caregivers

Read Hemalata’s story to learn how Legal Aid helped her obtain guardianship of her siblings, thereby removing them from an abusive home.

* Human Services Agency, County of San Mateo

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