Courthouse Facilitators
More and more, county courthouses have facilitators to help people process their lawful claims. Your task will be to check with your local bar association or courthouse to see what's available. Thus you may ask a courthouse facilitator for help. Be sure he will help you to figure out and understand where you should file your paperwork and walk you through the process of getting your paperwork to the right people within the court system.
 Public Defender Organizations
There are networks of criminal public defenders and al sates have them. Their task is to provide free or low-cost legal help to defendants in criminal cases. Nevertheless, people have to meet income eligibility requirements. It means that they must document their income.
Low-Cost Legal Programs
However, there are people who earn too much to qualify for lawful services or pro bono programs, and they don't make enough to hire an attorney at traditional rates. That's why, more and more programs are available for such people. In this case you can use telephone hotlines that charge by the minute and sliding-fee programs to get you the advice and representation you need at the lowest price possible.
What to Expect
You should remember that the limited money available to fund these programs goes directly to office supplies and other overhead.
It is possible that the lawyer you see may have an astoundingly large caseload or may be helping low-income clients in addition to his regular paying clients. But you have to be patient if you have to wait to see him or if he doesn't return your calls right away.
Otherwise you can write down a chronology of events of your case and also provide the attorney with copies of everything related to your case contracts, receipts, and bills, whatever. You should keep your description of the problem to the facts and don't wander onto tangents when talking with the legal services lawyer.
So, don't worry that a lawyer might look down on you just because you're broke. Believe that chances are, he has a family member or friend in the same situation, or has even experienced financial woes himself. Just believe everything will be all right!
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