What is the Senior Legal Hotline, 
and how can we help you?

  • We provide free legal advice and brief services by phone to California residents 60 and over. For a more detailed description, click here.

  • Grandparents with questions regarding custody or visitation of grandchildren can also receive assistance, click here.

  • Call us toll-free about any legal issue. To learn how and when, and what to expect when you call, click here.

  • You can also submit a question by e-mail. Click here to learn how.

  • To reschedule a missed appointment or submit an additional question by e-mail, click here.

  • We like it even better when we can help prevent problems through education. Click here to learn about informational material available on the web site, materials we can send and workshops for community groups.

  • To know more about the hotline's history, organization, staff, activities, financial support and more, click here.

  • If we can't help you, we'll try to direct you to someone who can. For lists of local legal services programs for seniors in California (north and south), general legal aid offices and senior legal hotlines in other states, click here.

  • We depend on a large corps of volunteers, from retired attorneys to social workers to student interns to teenage computer experts. If you'd like to consider getting involved, click here.

  • Likewise, we depend on donations and grants to provide our free service. Gifts can be large or small, money or equipment, a bequest in your will or trust ... even used vehicles. Click here to find out how you may be able to help - and get a tax deduction.

Click here to contact us for other matters (not legal questions).

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