Wednesday, December 5  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Housing/Landlord-Tenant
Wednesday, December 12  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Family Law for Victims of Domestic Violence
Wednesday, December 19  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Housing/Landlord-Tenant

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) now offers a teleconferencing center right here at the Main branch of LA Law Library, where you can speak to a lawyer live, send them documents and get answers to important questions. They offer legal advice and guidance to eligible individuals housing / landlord- tenant matters and victims of domestic violence who are going through a family law proceeding. They can also provide referrals to private attorneys, other legal services, and other resources as needed.

Descriptions of family law and housing / landlord tenant matters covered provided below.

Schedule and topics covered:

Family law and housing/landlord-tenant are covered every other week based on the following schedule:

• 1st Wednesday: Housing / Landlord-Tenant
• 2nd Wednesday: Family Law for victims of Domestic Violence
• 3rd Wednesday: Housing / Landlord-Tenant
• 4th Wednesday: Family Law for victims of Domestic Violence
• 5th Wednesday: Housing / Landlord-Tenant

Housing Clinic

What LAFLA Covers:

• Landlord-tenant issues
• Lock outs
• Security deposits
• Rent control
• Problems with conditions in the unit
• Subsidized housing
• Housing discrimination, including disability access
• Eviction Notices (3-day, 30-day, 60-day, etc.) to terminate a tenancy
• Unlawful detainers-complaints and responding to a complaint that's been served
• Trial preparation
• Setting aside default judgments
• Abandoned property
• Appealing to a judgment

What LAFLA doesn't cover:

• Inheritance of property
• Mobile homes
• Homeownership
• Foreclosure, mortgages
• Commercial leases
• Estate/probate matters involving housing and other occupancy issues

Family Law for Victims of Domestic Violence

What LAFLA Covers:

• Dissolutions/Divorces
• Custody
• Support
• Paternity
• Name change
• Domestic violence and restraining orders

What LAFLA doesn't cover:

• Dependency, Foster care, Child Protective Services
• Prenuptial agreements
• Inheritance

Client Prep Sheet

• Bring all documents to refer to
• Contracts
• Court papers
• Letters
• Receipts
• Bring court case numbers, if applicable

Appointment required. Please call: 213-785-2516 or ask at the Circulation Desk of LA Law Library for assistance.

Registration fees: FREE

Classes fill up fast, register today to reserve your seat! All registrants must check-in 10 minutes prior to class time to ensure your seat is not reassigned to waiting-list and walk-in attendees when classes are full.

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice:

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The Law Library is pleased to offer our patrons the opportunity to obtain assistance from third party legal service providers at this and other events within the Library. However, the Library does not control and is not responsible for the content or scope of any assistance given by those providers.

Tuesday June 23, 2020 6:30 pm via zoom.

Zoom invitation and link will be emailed to registrants prior to discussion.

Read the book and join the LALL book discussion group’s year-long exploration of voting rights Our voting rights are more important now than ever! In One Person, No Vote, Professor Anderson chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.

Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.

Named one of the Best Books of the Year (2018) by:

• Washington Post
• Boston Globe
• NPR
• New York Public Library

Join the authors of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood” and “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” for a timely and informative conversation about women’s reproductive rights in the United States. The battle over women's reproductive autonomy has intensified in recent years beyond debates about abortion rights to whether states can revoke or intervene in a pregnant woman's end of life decision-making, whether a woman can be forced to have a c-section under threat of criminal prosecution, whether falling down steps can be criminally punished during pregnancy and many other issues.

Discussion Will Include:

• The rise in state efforts to curtail women's reproductive rights as well as the legal, social, and medical implications.
• Historical backdrop and insights regarding contemporary constraints in reproductive healthcare.
• Predictions about what the future of reproductive rights might hold given the battles on these matters in state legislatures as well as the courts.
• Recent United Supreme Court decision, June Medical v. Russo.

Presented by:
Anna North (moderator), Senior Reporter, Vox
Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law
Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law

Please check back at a later time to view the video.

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

Celebrate Constitution Day and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with a deep dive into the battle for women’s suffrage. Dr. Ellen DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, offers a fresh perspective on the long struggle for women’s voting rights, looking at roads not taken, generations of activists involved, obstacles faced and overcome, and what was – and wasn’t – won as a result.

Presented by:
Ellen Carol Dubois, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research, LA Law Library, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law

Please check back at a later time to view the video.

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.