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Legal Aid of Nebraska wants every Nebraska to know about our free legal services. Check out the links below to various news sources that have featured Legal Aid staff or reported on Legal Aid's activities, programs/projects, events, services, and just about any other...
Champion of Nebraska children and families retires
Sidwell: The great communicator Countless Lincoln families and children lost an amazing advocate when Legal Aid of Nebraska’s attorney Scott Sidwell, 70, retired after 20 years of representing juvenile cases in court. A graduate of Kearney State College (now known as...
Tax issues made simple thanks to Tax Law Project
When Nebraska residents need tax assistance on tax controversy issues, they turn to Legal Aid of Nebraska’s virtual Low-Income Tax Clinic (LITC). Tax controversy is the practice area of tax disputes with organizations such as the IRS or Department of Revenue. “The...
Amid pandemic, a single mother’s home life jeopardized until she found Legal Aid of Nebraska
The rate of U.S. citizens facing evictions has never been higher. An estimated 30 to 40 million Americans are at risk, according to the Aspen Institute. Eviction Lab, a Princeton research firm, tracks 24 cities, and since COVID-19 reached the U.S., landlords have...
Housing Justice Project helps Omaha mother facing an $8,000 lawsuit and eviction
(Client name has been changed to protect her privacy.) Traci, a project manager in telecommunications, made plans to move to Arizona to help a family member. She packed up and moved out of her rental home in midtown Omaha, leaving her landlord instructions to keep the...
‘I feel hope when I talk to you’: How a Legal Aid paralegal helped a struggling Grand Island woman with more than just a bankruptcy
In the final months of 2019, Breanne Crow was struggling to stay afloat. She couldn’t afford to pay rent, had moved several times, and kept going deeper into debt. As a self-described addict, Breanne had worked hard to get sober, but that required funds that she...
Federal eviction moratorium temporarily provides direct and immediate help to Nebraska tenants facing surge in evictions
Legal Aid of Nebraska (Legal Aid) applauds the issuance of an order yesterday through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declaring evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a national health hazard, and subsequently putting all evictions...
Fighting for Nebraska’s farmers: Farm and Ranch Project hires new attorney
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers and ranchers were facing significant financial distress. A variety of factors, including the devastating 2019 floods, contributed to the economic downturn in which these once financially stable farmers and ranchers had...
A message from the Executive Director
Summer 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives so much in the last four months, but it also has cast a long-time reality into sharp relief. Each day, we are reminded of the fact that grocery clerks, package deliverers, waiters, sanitation workers, meat...
COVID-19 hits home: Legal Aid helps Grand Island woman receive unemployment benefits
The financial impact of COVID-19 is being felt worldwide, including right here in Nebraska. In Grand Island, one of the hardest hit areas in the state, many immunocompromised workers faced the heart-wrenching reality that they may contract the virus while working to...
A Nebraska first: Douglas Co. judge cites federal CARES Act in halting eviction
In a victory for tenants struggling to pay their rent during the COVID-19 crisis, Douglas County Court Judge Thomas K. Harmon (Omaha) ruled this past week that the federal moratorium on evictions found in the federal CARES Act was in force in Nebraska. In this case,...
An Open Letter to Our Clients and Community
Racial justice in Omaha, Lincoln, and in every Nebraska community, starts and stops with each of us, including our elected leaders, judges, law enforcement, and legal profession. It is all of our responsibility to make it happen. At Legal Aid of Nebraska, we stand in...
A legal safety net in times of crisis
A message from Legal Aid of Nebraska's Executive Director Milo Mumgaard: During today’s coronavirus crisis, Legal Aid of Nebraska is our legal safety net. From the first days when Nebraska schools closed and our streets rolled up, Legal Aid’s passionate staff and...
Legal Aid bringing best-selling author Matthew Desmond to Lincoln
Legal Aid is excited to announce Matthew Desmond, best-selling author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (2016), will provide a free public lecture on Thursday evening, October 8, at the Sheldon Museum of Art Auditorium on the UNL campus. Desmond...
Legal Aid successfully keeps creditor from garnishing stimulus check of unemployed, pregnant mother
The financial impact of COVID-19 can be felt across the world, but for one Nebraska woman, the struggle to provide for her family was reaching its breaking point. Danielle* is a single mother raising a small child with another on the way. She was laid off during the...
Federal stimulus payments may disappear for thousands of low-income Nebraskans
SPANISH Federal CARES Act stimulus payments will soon be arriving in low-income Nebraskans’ bank accounts, many of whom have already lost their jobs and steady income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this stimulus payment, intended to help pay for food, rent,...
Legal Aid commends Governor Ricketts for halting residential evictions in Nebraska during public health emergency
Today, Governor Pete Ricketts put a halt to residential evictions in Nebraska, by entering an order putting on hold the right of landlords to file certain legal actions to evict for non-payment of rent through May 31. This action will now protect hardworking Nebraska...
Free legal help hotline available for Nebraskans affected by COVID-19
Español COVID-19/Disaster Relief Hotline: 1-844-268-5627 Nebraskans who have questions or are experiencing legal problems due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health emergency now have an easy way to get legal advice and help. The free COVID-19 Disaster Relief...