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The Maryland Court Help Center 2021 Provider Conference offered a glimpse into some of the cutting edge innovations in self-help in the COVID era.1   Court Help Center Knowledge Base Maryland Court Help Providers have access to the...

Without $60, Montana Courts were going to leave Troy and Wendy Hadley out in the cold. In February 2016, the Hadley’s received an eviction notice from the Montana Housing Authority. Without income and receiving food stamps, the Hadley’s wrote thei...

As COVID-19 increases the need for civil legal help, the Legal Aid Society of Hawai’i took an innovative approach to meet SRLs where many are in these challenging times: food distribution sites. As a member of one of Hawai`i’s FEMA Emergency Support ...

Floridians know all too well how their lives can be upended by hurricanes. This was especially true for those living in the path of Hurricane Michael, a category 5 storm, that slammed into the Florida Panhandle in October 2018. The region is served b...

With COVID-19 impacting the ability of litigants everywhere to have legal documents including affidavits and verifications notarized, four approaches to resolving the issue have emerged: socially distanced notarization, the elimination of notarizatio...

As COVID-19 continues to impact court operations, courts must produce easy to understand and accessible translations of court administrative orders in order to ensure court processes remain inclusive of all court users. SRLs, the predominant user gro...

While many states have reported difficulties in processing probate cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, Alaska has been remarkably successful in moving these cases along, and even to some extent expediting them beyond what had been happening before th...

With COVID-19 leaving many courts in need of funds to ensure Self-Represented Litigant (SRL) and self-help services are remotely accessible, SRLN consulted with Karen Lash, from the Justice in Government Project at American University, to generate th...

With in-person support for SRLs limited or halted due to COVID, a significant number of self-help services are continuing to serve the public even when their court might be closed. The challenge in this circumstance becomes how to tell the public tha...