Veterans Get a Legal Checkup with New Online Tool
The “Veterans Legal Checkup” aims to help veterans diagnose potential legal issues, particularly in employment, family law and housing.
July 05, 2017 at 11:33 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legal Tech News
“Checkups” are obviously common in health care, but the idea of doing a preventive screening for potential issues has applications in law as well, especially in access to justice efforts. A new legal “checkup” tool for veterans, a collaborative project between the American Bar Association (ABA), legal insurance group ARAG Legal and legal innovation group CuroLegal, aims to help veterans “check up” some of the legal issues they may be facing.
Nicole Bradick, chief strategy officer at CuroLegal, said the tool, called Veterans Legal Checkup, was designed in alignment with current ABA president Linda Klein's institution of the ABA Veterans Legal Services Initiative.
Who it serves: The tool, as its name plainly suggests, is designed for veterans, but Bradick explained that it looks at a few different service areas in particular. “We spoke with a lot of veterans' legal experts, and they highlighted employment, family law and housing as the three biggies,” Bradick said. Accordingly, the tool's questionnaire steps users through questions that could bring to light issues veterans face in these areas, like eviction, emergency housing, fair pay, and spousal support.
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