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Florida Rural Legal Services
Our organization makes a difference in the communities we serve because we change lives by helping people get access to justice that we all want and need.
We do this through our legal services.
Every day, our attorneys and staff work to create opportunities for the most vulnerable individuals and families to find their path out of poverty, live independently, and contribute to making our society a better place for all of us to live.
Take the time to learn how we can help you in improving your life, and how you can support our services to ensure they are available to those who need them most in the 13 counties that we serve.
SERVICES PROVIDED
HOUSING
Florida Rural Legal Services helps our clients with civil cases and questions regarding housing.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Florida Rural Legal Services uses litigation and advocacy to fight discrimination.
FAMILY LAW
Florida Rural Legal Services educates our clients about their rights, negotiates settlements on their behalf, and provides representation in court.
ELDER LAW
We can arrange home visits if you are in a hospital or a nursing home, or if you are home bound.
PUBLIC BENEFITS
We provide representation to eligible clients, working with them in negotiations with government agencies, administrative hearings or appeals in court.
FARMWORKER
To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words than anything else.
CONSUMER RIGHTS
Florida Rural Legal Services can help you protect your consumer rights involving purchases, income, property, contracts, loans, and debts.
EDUCATION
Florida Rural Legal Services advocates on behalf of low-income children and disabled children who experience unmet needs in their educational systems.
DRIVE TO WORK INITIATIVE
Florida Rural Legal Services Launches Drive to Work Initiative to Help Poor Residents Whose Driver Licenses Were Suspended or Revoked
TAX ASSISTANCE
The Florida Rural Legal Services Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is a free legal-aid clinic that provides legal services to low-income taxpayers
MEDICAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP
FRLS partners with the Legal Aid Services of Collier County to provide legal services to veterans
Contact us today and receive a free legal advice.
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The power to help others
Offering free legal assistance
Is the MISSION of FRLS
Florida Rural Legal Services serves people living in 13 counties across Florida: Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Charlotte, Desoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Okeechobee, Indian River, St. Lucie and Palm Beach.
We offer free civil legal assistance to seniors, people with disabilities, and other low-income people in many areas of the law including evictions and landlord abuse, foreclosure rights, public housing, housing discrimination, denial of public benefits, divorce, child custody and visitation, domestic abuse, debt collection and unfair loans, immigration, and much more.
Our legal services are intended to help individuals and families establish stable housing, maintain jobs, and remove barriers that cause poverty.
Please note: We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation and gender identity, in the delivery of services.
Jaffe. S Pickett, Executive Director and CEO
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OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
Our clients recommend our work and dedication is our motto.
We provide all of our services free
FRLS assisted AB, a disabled senior citizen who could not read or write.  She was a victim of exploitation and as a result, her home was in foreclosure. We represented AB and the foreclosure was dismissed.
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This year Florida Rural Legal Services helped over 21,440 low income individuals and families facing civil legal issues.
J.S. is veteran whose much needed VA benefits were being garnished for a Veterans home loan that the VA said he took out years ago to purchase a property. J.S. never took out a loan to purchase a property in Georgia. FRLS represented J.S. and proved that the signature on the home loan was not his, and that he had never lived in Georgia. The VA corrected his record and reimbursed him almost $10,000 that they had already garnished from his VA benefits.
We also provided free legal education to over 12,000 individuals in the communities we serve.
In 2015, FRLS filed a lawsuit on behalf of 18 migrant farmworkers against their employer. The farmworkers were guestworkers from Mexico, working in the United States on H-2A visas. H-2A agricultural guestworker visas are tied to their employer, which means that workers cannot switch jobs without being required to leave the U.S. This often leaves guestworkers vulnerable to exploitation. The guestworkers in this case had contacted FRLS and complained that they had been underpaid for the hours that they had worked. FRLS filed a lawsuit on behalf of the farmworkers, and reached a settlement with the employer in 2016.
Without your loyal support, we couldn’t do the vital work we do. That’s why we promise to uphold the highest ethical standards.
News
Florida Rural Legal Services is pleased to announce its Executive Director, Jaffe S. Pickett, Esquire, has been selected as one of the nationwide leaders of the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Association’s (NLADA) first Transformational Leadership Institute.
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