Metroplex Veterans Legal Services
Alice Echo-News JournalOct 11, 2017
Veterans who have received the no-cost legal services through Metroplex Veterans Legal Services program, who were homeless at the time of the legal clinic, are now working and living in apartments after their legal issues were resolved with assistance from our program and the pro bono attorneys. One Veteran is now a firefighter after his criminal arrest record was expunged. Another Veteran who was homeless was able to obtain housing after his order of nondisclosure was granted.
Metroplex Veterans Legal Services is conducting a two Veteran's legal clinics in
One clinic is a Veteran's
One clinic is a Veteran's Expunction and Orders of
The Veterans must register on-line in advance of either clinic metroplex.veteranslegalservices.us.
An Expunction removes all records of an arrest and/or subsequent court case from the public record and the individual may legally deny or fail to acknowledge ever having been arrested for or charged with any crime which has been expunged. A record of an arrest without a conviction is a barrier for employment. An order of nondisclosure is a legal remedy available to people who successfully complete deferred adjudication probation, in which a
Metroplex Veterans Legal Services offers single issue legal clinics to Veterans on a pro bono basis. Our legal clinics focus on removing the legal barriers to employment for Veterans, and assisting disabled Veterans to obtain military disability benefits. The goal of our clinics is to provide free legal counsel and advice to low income, unemployed, homeless, disabled, elderly, or at risk for homelessness Veterans for outstanding traffic tickets, warrants from tickets, and driver's license issues caused by tickets; child support modification; expunction of criminal arrests; bankruptcy; consumer fraud;
The pro bono legal resources for Veterans have been very scarce prior to the commencement of our program. According to a recent