At the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, we try to help as many people as we can. Often, someone's problem does not fit specifically into one of our programs, but the person is eligible for AVLF services in every other way. When that happens, we ask for help from individual attorneys or firms who are willing to accept a case outside of an established program.
The following matters need the assistance of a volunteer attorney. If you can help in any way, please contact Tamara Serwer Caldas by e-mail or at 404-521-0790.
2. Cancer Survivor Needs Defense
CS -- The client is an elderly cancer survivor who has received demand letters from an insurance company for an automobile accident that did not involve her!The insurance company through counsel is demanding over $4,000.00 in damages and has advised her that they will soon file suit and have her license suspended.The client purchased a car at an auction in December 2007, and two weeks later she had the title transferred to her daughter.The car was never insured by the client.The daughter had an accident, and the police were present but did not file a report because the damage was so minor.The daughter and the other party to the accident did not exchange insurance information.Will you help this elderly woman resolve this dispute?
3. Senior Citizen's Retirement Account Plundered
OB – The client is a senior citizen who retired and invested money in CD accounts through the local branch of a national bank in 2002.The bank representative told the client that she must have a co-signer, and the client enlisted the help of her son.The representative told the client that her son could not withdraw the funds without her consent.The son was married at that time, but divorced in 2006.The client's ex-wife owed the bank a large sum of money, and a bank teller advised the ex-wife that she could pay off the debt through her ex-husband's CD accounts.The ex-wife admits to withdrawing some funds to pay off her debts in 2007.The client filed a suit against her son in Fulton County Magistrate Court, where she learned that she needs to pursue the bank as well and needs the assistance of a lawyer to do this properly.Will you help her?
4. SENIOR CITIZEN TRICKED INTO SCHEME; WANTS OUT
QJ – The senior citizen client had around $10,000 in credit card debt and was struggling to pay her mortgage.She approached a "friend" of the family (the adverse party or "AP") about helping her obtain a reverse mortgage, and the application was denied.The AP then offered to help her find a credit card with an interest rate lower than her current credit card rates, and suggested that she use the new card to pay off the old higher interest card, which she did.The AP then suggested that he and the client form a partnership that would buy old houses and fix up new houses.He told her that because she had "good" credit, the business could use her credit to obtain funding for the business.Client agreed and around February 21, 2008, signed a partnership agreement.The AP immediately had client apply for several credit cards under her name and the partnership's name, and he then made over $5000 in charges on the cards.The client needs legal guidance on how to extricate herself from this partnership with the least liability possible.To complicate matters, the partnership agreement states that the Partnership Agreement is governed by the laws of Wyoming!
