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EnglishWhere to Find Legal Information on Legal Aid WV for Housing, Family, and Benefits Problems
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Legal Aid WV organizes its legal information by topic, so you can go straight to the section that matches your problem. For housing issues, start with Home & Apartment; for family matters, use Family & Safety; for benefits, use Health & Benefits. Each section lists specific issues (for example, eviction, child custody, or food and cash benefits) and links to pages that explain the law and your options. These pages provide general legal information, not advice about your specific case.
Housing: Home & Apartment
The Home & Apartment section covers problems with keeping or maintaining a place to live. Listed issues include:
- Eviction from a home
- Problems with living conditions
- Renting or leasing a home
- Owning or buying a home
- Utilities, energy, and heating at home
- Discrimination around housing
- Contracts
- Debt and lending money issues
If you are facing an eviction or a repair problem, open the matching issue page first. It will explain the general rules and steps that apply in West Virginia.
Family: Family & Safety
The Family & Safety section covers household and personal safety matters. Listed issues include:
- Domestic violence and abuse
- Divorce, separation, and annulment
- Abuse and neglect
- Child custody and parenting plans
- Adoption
- Foster care
- Personal safety order
- Parental rights (and termination)
- Paternity
- Guardianship and conservatorship
Some of these issues also appear under Courts & Hearings, which covers representing yourself, going to court, and dealing with procedure. If your question is about how a hearing works rather than the family law itself, check that section too.
Benefits: Health & Benefits
The Health & Benefits section covers public benefits and related money problems. Listed issues include:
- Food and cash benefits
- Social Security Disability Benefits
- Health coverage benefits
- Mental health
- Substance use disorder recovery
- Disability: reasonable accommodation
- Veterans
- Child support
- Debt and lending money issues
Food and cash benefits and health coverage benefits also appear under Courts & Hearings, so you may see the same topic linked from more than one place.
Other Sections Worth Checking
The site's topic list is broader than the three areas above. Depending on your problem, these sections may be more direct:
| Section | Covers |
|---|---|
| Courts & Hearings | Representing yourself, going to court, procedure, domestic violence, divorce, renting, benefits, car payments, contracts |
| Criminal Record & Driver's License | Expungement, driver's licenses, traffic and parking tickets, replacing lost documents after a disaster |
| Disaster Relief | Help after a disaster, rebuilding, replacing lost documents, insurance claims, living conditions, renting, owning a home |
| Money & Debt | Bankruptcy, car payments, credit reports, protecting property and wages, paying for education and medical care, financial exploitation, taxes |
| School & Education | Special education, missing school, paying for education, veterans, disaster help |
| Work & Unemployment | Unemployment compensation, reasonable accommodation, wrongful discharge, family leave, wage issues |
Information, Not Personalized Advice
The pages under these topics explain legal rules and general options. They are legal information, not legal advice about your situation. If you need help with your own case, the site provides an Apply for Legal Help Now entry point alongside its legal information. Use the information pages to understand the issue, then apply if you want someone to review your circumstances.
If Your Topic Is Not Listed
The homepage includes a search box labeled Search Legal Information Topics with a Submit Search button. Type a plain description of the problem, such as "security deposit" or "denied food benefits," and search. This is the fastest route when your issue does not obviously fit one of the section names.
A Practical Way to Start
- Identify which area your problem falls into: home, family, benefits, money, work, school, criminal record, or disaster.
- Open that section and click the issue closest to your situation.
- Read the page for the general rules and steps.
- If nothing matches, use the topic search.
- If you want case-specific help, use Apply for Legal Help Now.
For a broader view of what the site offers, see the related questions on what Legal Aid WV is and what you can do on legalaidwv.org, and on how to apply for legal help through the website.