Long Beach Self-Help Resource Center and Family Law Facilitator

All courts in California have a self-help center that can provide free legal help to people who do not have a lawyer.

The self-help center lawyer is not your lawyer. He or she works for the court and is a lawyer who can help people who do not have their own lawyer.

You do not have attorney-client privilege with self-help center staff. What you say to the staff or lawyer is NOT confidential.

Both sides can get help from the self-help center.

Self-help center services are free.  Anyone who does not have their own lawyer can get help from the self-help center. It does not matter how much money you make.

Conservatorship clinics on some Fridays of the month at the Long Beach Courthouse, 275 Magnolia Ave, Rm 3101.

The office of the Family Law Facilitator assists self-represented parties with child support, spousal support and health insurance issues. The staff provides legal information and education to help parties complete their paperwork and represent themselves in their cases. The staff does not give legal advice nor does it represent a party in a case or at a hearing. There is no confidentiality or attorney-client relationship created between the office and a party.

The Office of the Family Law Facilitator provides the following assistance:

Provides information and assistance completing paperwork to parties representing themselves to:

Establish, modify or terminate a child support order

Establish, modify or terminate spousal support

Establish, modify or terminate health insurance order

Determine arrears

Establish repayment plans

Seek reimbursement for overpayments

Quash or modify wage assignment orders

Provides information and prepares draft calculations of support amounts based on statutory guidelines

Provides referrals to the Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department, Family Court Services and other community agencies

Educates and assists parties to prepare stipulations for parties who agree to child support, spousal support or health insurance

Educates and assists parties to prepare answers to Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department complaints

Educates and assists parties to prepare motions to set aside in cases involving the Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department

Educates and assists parties to prepare Orders After Hearing and Wage Assignment Orders in which child support, spousal support or health insurance are at issue in family law cases

Mediates child support, spousal support and health insurance issues between the parties