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Columbus Perspective: Kinship Care

Executive Director Susan Choe talks with host Dave James about the newest content from Ohio Legal Help.
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Free Online Help for Kinship Caretakers

A new online tool is available to support Ohioans caring for children of relatives and family friends.
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Ohio Legal Help Adds Kinship Care Information to Website

OhioLegalHelp.org is now providing help specifically for the hundreds of thousands of people who are taking care of minor relatives in kinship care arrangements.
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Ohio Legal Help to offer help to Ohioans facing debt collection

Ohio Legal Help will use a generous grant from the Columbus Bar Foundation to add new content to its web portal, OhioLegalHelp.org, including legal information, court forms and tools to help Franklin County residents deal with civil legal issues related to debt collection.
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Common Legal Terms

Legal terminology can be complicated and confusing unless you are a party in the justice system yourself. Our blog series, Legally Informed, will help you understand common terms used in the courtroom and cases.

Empowerment and Equity: A Letter from the Executive Director

Executive Director Susan Choe reflects on 2022 and what the Ohio Legal Help team, partners and Ohio families have been able to accomplish over the last year.

Who are the players in a lawsuit?

Legal terminology can be complicated and confusing unless you are a party in the justice system yourself. Our blog series, Legally Informed, will help you understand common terms used in the courtroom and cases.

What’s the difference between a civil case and a criminal case?

Legal terminology can be complicated and confusing unless you are a party in the justice system yourself. Our blog series, Legally Informed, will help you understand common terms used in cases and the courtroom.

Free legal help website launches for Latino community in Ohio

Ohio Legal Help is a statewide non-profit group trying to make the legal system easy by eliminating as many barriers as possible, including language.
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Ohio Legal Help launches new website for Spanish-speaking Ohioans

Ohio Legal Help gives Ohioans easy access to legal information at the touch of a button. But for Spanish-speaking Ohioans that wasn't the case until now as Ohio Legal Help launched a new website in Spanish.
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