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Looking Out For Your Legal Rights is LSNJ's community legal education newsletter. In language that is easy to understand, Looking Out gives you general information about current legal issues and how they may affect you. Part of each issue is available in a Spanish-language section, Cuáles son sus derechos legales.
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July-August 2024
- School Residency Requirements
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Know Your Educational Rights!
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Renters’ Rights: My Section 8 is being terminated. What can I do?
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Legal Services of New Jersey wrote this handbook to help parents when the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (formerly DYFS) files a court case to place their children in foster care based on claims that the parents have abused or neglected their children. This handbook will help you understand the things you must do to try to reunite with your child as soon as possible.
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Sexual violence cases may be brought in civil, criminal, or municipal court. This handbook will focus on protections and other benefits available to victims of sexual violence under New Jersey’s civil law.
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This guide provides basic information on how to clear—"expunge"—various types of adult and juvenile records in New Jersey. It includes information to help you determine whether you are eligible for expungement, guidance on gathering your records, and directions on how to file your application. The manual is intended for those who do not have the help of a lawyer.
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Divorce in New Jersey: A Self-Help Guide is accurate as of the date it was last revised—January 2019.
Divorce in New Jersey: A Self-Help Guide (read the instructions):
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This handbook reviews the major provisions of New Jersey law regarding domestic violence and suggests some of the measures you can take to protect yourself from abuse, including using the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act to get a restraining order to keep the abuser away.
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Tenants' Rights in New Jersey is LSNJ's guide to landlord-tenant law for New Jersey residents. The manual includes chapters on finding a place to live, security deposits, leases, rent increases, the responsibilities of landlords and tenants, legal and illegal evictions, condo and co-op conversions, and the right to safe and decent housing.
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LSNJ wrote this handbook to help parents when the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, DCP&P (formerly the Division of Youth and Family Services, DYFS) takes legal action to terminate (end) their parental rights to their children. This handbook contains information about the law and legal process that apply to you as a defendant parent being sued by DCP&P in a termination of parental rights case.
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Violence or harassment in a current or former romantic relationship is called “dating violence and harassment.” This guide has been created to help you identify when behavior in a relationship crosses the line from an unhealthy relationship to illegal behavior and to know what you can do to protect yourself under the law.
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Appealing a Welfare Decision
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Applying – Are you Applying for Welfare?
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Domestic Violence
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