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Hearing: October 25, 2023 at 12:45 PM Client fell slightly behind on rent after taking disability leave at work. She was in communication with her Landlord throughout, and tried to get rental assistance. However, Landlord did not have a valid rental license, which made Client ineligible to get funds. Client has a number of defenses available to her, including Landlord’s […]

46-year-old client seeks assistance gaining title of her home through a quiet title action based on adverse possession. Client moved into the property in 2007 and entered a year-long lease to rent the property. After the lease was up, client did not sign anything else, but continued to pay rent until 2013 with receipts to reflect this. Landlord of the […]

Friendly and excited 44-year-old client wants to write a will and open to creating medical and financial powers of attorney. Client recently purchased a home and would like to add her daughter to her will as beneficiary along with a trustee. Client is looking for a volunteer to assist her in writing a will and to further discuss creating financial […]

85-year-old client seeks assistance with creating a will and healthcare advance directive. Client would like to name her daughter as the agent under healthcare power of attorney and the beneficiary of her home in the will. A volunteer is needed to draft documents in accordance with client’s wishes.

69-year-old mother and lifelong Philadelphia resident seeks assistance creating estate planning documents. Client would like to create a will leaving her home to her son, and powers of attorney naming him as the sole agent. A volunteer is needed to draft documents in accordance with client’s wishes.

Client needs a volunteer to defend him at an arbitration hearing in the Court of Common Pleas on December 21, 2023 at 9:15am. A response to the complaint is due on July 6, 2023. In 2020, Client opened an American Express business card to support the business he started. He paid on it for about a year but then his […]

Recently paralyzed client seeks assistance preparing a will and advanced healthcare directives. Client, who lived in her home for 19 years prior to her paralysis, is temporarily living with her oldest daughter. Client wishes to leave her home to her youngest daughter, who is currently living there, and have her other financial assets divided equally between all three of her […]

Proactive client needs help gaining title to her family home. The home is currently co-owned by her husband and mother-in-law, as joint tenants with right of survivorship. Client’s mother-in-law predeceased Client’s husband, who passed away in 2020, leaving Client as his sole intestate heir. VIP helped Client fill out a Tangled Title Fund application to assist with probate costs. A […]

44-year-old caretaker, sister, and daughter is looking for assistance probating the estate of her mother. In December 2021, client’s mother, the record owner of client’s home, died intestate. Client and her brother started the probate process but, unfortunately, he died intestate in February of 2022. Client is now caring for two of her brother’s children, who live with her in […]

Extremely organized client seeks help with becoming the legal guardian of her 19-year-old son. Her son was born with hydrocephaly and has a shunt in his brain, which would require surgery to remove or replace. Son is non-verbal and has a severe developmental disability, and cannot advocate for himself. Client would like to be able to make medical decisions on […]

Warm and grateful client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate and transferring title of the home she currently lives in from her mother’s name to hers. Mother, the deceased record owner, died in February 2021, leaving behind five children as heirs, including client. All four siblings signed renunciations to allow client to open the estate. However, only two of the […]

Twenty-nine-year-old client needs help obtaining guardianship of her cousin (AIP), who has Down’s Syndrome and an intellectual disability. He is unable to speak, read, write, or sign. Client has been caring for AIP since before his mother passed away in February 2023, and continues to do so. AIP does not have any known siblings and his parents are both deceased. […]

Client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate. Client’s mother died intestate in 2012. Client’s sibling is the only other heir, and has signed the necessary renunciation. VIP is assisting Client with filling out the Tangled Title Fund (TTF) application to assist with costs associated with the process. A volunteer is needed to assist Client with opening her mother’s estate, drafting […]

Kind client requests assistance with probating his cousin’s estate and transferring title of his home into his name. Client’s maternal second cousin purchased the property with her husband as tenants by the entireties in 1955. Client’s cousin passed away in 2000; her husband had predeceased her in 1979. They did not have any children. Client’s mother is the cousin’s sole […]

Responsible older client would like to leave his home to his daughter, and name her as sole heir and executor in his will. He is interested in making power of attorney documents and a living will also, but would like to discuss further with an attorney. A volunteer is needed to draft documents in accordance with Client’s wishes. Client speaks […]

Client seeks assistance getting title to the home she has lived in for the past 22 years. In November 2000, Client and her partner at the time, used a straw buyer to assist them with purchasing the home because they did not have sufficient credit. The buyer was a friend of the couple and agreed to put the deed and […]

Client needs help making a will that bestows her home to her daughter, who will also be named executor. She would also like to make an advanced directive, and discuss making power of attorney documents. A volunteer is needed to draft documents in accordance with Client’s wishes.

Client seeks assistance with estate planning documents. Client would like a will making his close friend the executor of his estate, as well as the sole beneficiary. Client would also like an advance directive and a financial POA naming his close friend the agent. An attorney is needed to draft the documents following client’s wishes.

Communicative and organized 63-year-old client who has been living in his mother’s home since birth is seeking assistance gaining title to the family property. Client’s mother passed away in 2000 and left a will naming client as heir and executor of her estate. Client has the original will and has completed the Tangled Title Fund application. Client is looking for […]

Grateful and responsive 73-year-old client seeks assistance gaining title to the home she’s lived in since 1990. Her husband who recently passed in 2021 is the sole record owner. Client has a very small DHS bill but VIP has started the process of getting her a hardship waiver. Client is guaranteed partial title, but will potentially be able to get […]

Hardworking father seeks assistance with a debt collections matter. An arbitration hearing is scheduled in the Court of Common Pleas for April 8, 2024 at 2pm. The deadline to respond to the complaint is October 20, 2023. Client opened a Discover card a few years ago. When client’s hours got cut at work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he began […]

Client needs help obtaining guardianship of her mother’s estate in order to manage her mother’s finances, including paying her utility bills and restarting her pension income. The pension fund company for some reason believes mother is deceased, so stopped sending mother payments; client cannot fix the issue and restart payments without guardianship of mother’s estate. Client has been paying mother’s […]

Client, who had disabling cancer, has been living in her home since 1993. She moved in under the understanding that the record owner would transfer title to her after she paid off the back real estate taxes of about $16,000. She did this and never heard from the record owner again. Then, in 1999, record owner transferred title instead to […]

Appreciative 68-year-old client is looking to creating medical and financial powers of attorney documents and potentially drafting a will. She is living alone and would like to name her two nieces as her agents. Client has been informed about several ways that she can name two agents and would like to discuss this further with a volunteer. A volunteer is […]