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Commentary: Kentucky’s civil legal aid programs brace for unprecedented need for legal help
As we begin the process of reopening the economy and emerging from the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic, health, and social/emotional hardships facing our communities will become clearer. COVID-19 will leave countless Kentuckians with new and unanticipated challenges. Many of the challenges will involve civil legal issues: keeping one’s home, protection from abuse, securing benefits like unemployment, and much more.
Tyler Childers gets his name on Country Music Highway sign
Also buys a statue of disgraced lawyer PAINTSVILE, Ky. — Last Thursday was a red letter day for Tyler Childers. The country music star announced on Facebook and Instragram that he had marked two things off his bucket list, he got his name on a federal highway sign and he bought a statue of a disgraced lawyer.
DO I HAVE TO PAY RENT? Evictions During COVID-19
Join us LIVE on Facebook @AppalReDLegalAid Wednesday, June 24, 2020 @ 12:30 PM EST with Directing Attorney Charnel Burton as she discusses Evictions during COVID-19.
Don’t Stop Believing: Virtual Tools Keep Us Serving Community During COVID Crisis
By Sarah Curry, Development and Communications Coordinator The needs of our community don’t stop because of COVID-19. In fact, if you saw the op-ed penned by Kentucky legal aid directors, including AppalReD Legal Aid’s Robert Johns, the need for civil legal aid increases.
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Donate GIVE NOW AppalReD Legal Aid is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We receive federal, state, and local funding. However, over 240,000 people live below the poverty level in our region, and many legal needs go unmet. AppalReD accepts monetary donations to help us provide legal services to those in need.  Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
Thousands of Eric Conn client share checks mailed out by Prestonsburg attorney
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (MTN) — The majority of citizens who were affected by the Eric C. Conn disability claim debacle could see their long-awaited client share checks in the mail as early as this week. According to a Facebook post by Prestonsburg attorney Ned Pillersdorf, his office has organized over 1,100 checks and envelopes, which were mailed out on Tuesday, June 23rd. Read More  
AppalReD Hosts Notre Dame Law Students
Notre Dame Law Students are using their Fall Break to assist AppalReD with research and a pro se Divorce Clinic (do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer) which will be held on held on October 19, 2016.   For more information on the clinic please see our Event Page.
AppalReD hosts divorce workshop
By Andrea Saddler - asaddler@civitasmedia.com PRESTONSBURG – In the United States, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That’s nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces each week and 876,000 divorces a year. Many individuals with limited financial resources seeking the services of an attorney for a divorce turn to AppalReD in Prestonsburg. AppalReD hosted a free divorced workshop on Tuesday.  Read More
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Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks
By BY CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press MINNIE, Ky. (AP) — Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all.