When financial stability becomes an emergency - Legal Aid of Nebraska is here to help! We provide information, advice, referrals, and legal representation that helps get to the root of the problem:
- Protect income and assets from creditors
- Enforce right to dispute and challenge debt
- Build and repair credit
- Increase financial literacy
Common legal issues we help with
- Bankruptcy
- Car repossession
- Credit report disputes
- Debt collection
- Debtor’s exams
- Identity theft
- Lawsuit filed against you for a debt
- Medical debt
- Payday loans
- Predatory and discriminatory lending
- Student loan debt
- Tax debt
- Wage garnishment
Client Impact Stories
“Legal Aid of Nebraska and [our attorney] Phil was there for us, standing up for us with the banks when they continued to try and take advantage of us,"
Last October, Nancy started getting letters in the mail from the Small Business Administration (SBA) - which was odd, because she had never applied for a business loan and is not a business owner. She received a letter from the US Treasury about a Small Business Loan she never applied for. One of the letters even threatened to withhold money from her social security checks.
‘I feel hope when I talk to you’: How a Legal Aid paralegal helped a struggling Grand Island woman with more than just a bankruptcy
