Legal clinic offers free advice and more for veterans and service members

At the EPCC campus in northeast El Paso saturday, organizers and volunteers brought together a number of needed services for a free legal clinic for veterans, active duty military and their families in our area.

“(It’s) the opportunity to get free legal advice in a realm of areas such as real estate, probate, tenant-land lord relations, wills, family law,” said Myer Lipson, president of the El Paso Bar Association, one of the event organizers. “So this gives them the opportunity to get free legal advice, and helps them with their basic home life.”

Lawyers volunteered their time, and veteran organizations and agencies came to help veterans find the services they may need.
“So in addition to the legal advice that we can give,” said Don Williams, chair of El Paso Lawyers for Patriots, “we can also steer them in the direction of the right agency or organization, because a lot of the time they won’t even need legal advice.”

And for veterans like Ricardo Trevizo, who served in the 82nd Airborne in the 1950s, the clinic provides an opportunity to take care of important issues like wills, and make sure family and benefits are taken care of.

“I think it’s very important,” Trevizo said. “We’ve had several cases in our chapter where the spouse passes away, and say it’s the wife, and she has nowhere to go. And if the veterans get informed here, or at the chapter, it’s a big advantage if something happens.”

For more information about the event, you can see the organizations involved and contact the organizers on their Facebook page.