State Bar Announces Free Legal Help Available For New Mexico Wildfires Survivors

SBNM News:

The State Bar of New Mexico (SBNM) announces a free legal help hotline  available beginning June 6, for New Mexico Wildfires survivors.

The hotline is available to connect survivors to free legal services in qualifying counties who cannot afford an attorney. Survivors may call 888.985.5141.

Hotline callers may get help with legal issues like:

  • FEMA and SBA financial benefits;
  • Home repair contracts and property insurance claims;
  • Re-doing wills and other important legal documents destroyed in the disaster;
  • Price gouging, scams or identity theft;
  • Landlord or tenant problems, or threats of foreclosure; and
  • Disability-related access to federal, state and local disaster programs.

Survivors can call the hotline anytime and leave a message if calling after hours. Hotline partners cannot help in all cases. For example, they cannot take cases where a settlement could include legal fees or an award. But they can refer those cases to other legal help.

For up-to-date information on free legal services for survivors, media members can contact our partners in these languages: English, Spanish.

The Disaster Legal Services (DLS) program works with state and local partners to provide free legal help for low-income disaster survivors. The service is a partnership between the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), New Mexico State Bar and New Mexico State Bar Young Lawyers Division.

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