PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Legal Aid Society provides free legal advice and assistance to survivors of domestic violence. To see if you are eligible for Legal Aid help, please call (650) 558-0915.

The Domestic Violence Collaborative provides free limited scope representation at permanent restraining order hearings to low-income victims of domestic violence.

Legal Aid partners with Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA) and Bay Area Legal Aid to train pro bono attorneys and mentor them through their cases. Since the project began in March of 2007, we have provided clients with pro bono attorneys to represent them at their permanent restraining order hearings. Most of these cases include child custody, visitation and support orders. A few have even included an entire divorce settlement.

Read Donna’s story to learn how Legal Aid helped separate her and her children from an abusive boyfriend.