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56 Pine Street
Providence, RI - 02903
56 Pine Street
Providence, RI - 02903
Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low-income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.
Mission Statement: Rhode Island Legal Services provides legal representation to low-income individuals for the purpose of improving their economic and human condition by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with difficulties that effect their ability to access the legal system.
My fiancé has an unemployment adjudication hearing this week. Back in October I had a complicated pregnancy and had given birth to our child prematurely. My partners job required him to go into all sorts of buildings, apartments, hospitals etc. With me recovering from an emergency csection and our infant in the NICU he believed he was jeopardizing the health of his family and was no longer able to perform the duties the job required. It was a mutual decision with his employer that it just wasn’t working. On his unemployment adjudication form it states Termination. In your experience is this unique situation something he could argue to keep collecting until he finds other work?
I have taken steps to become my great-niece's guardian. We did zoom court on Wednesday in Pawtucket probate court all the paperwork was filed. However, Judge is requesting a signed release from her mother which I did not think was necessary since her adopted father was willing to sign off on his parental rights and is not contesting the process. Even though her mother entered a nursing home at the age of 32 years and will be in a care facility for the rest of her life the Judge is requested her signature. I initially filed the paperwork "pro say", I am not at a point where I am not sure what the next step will be, do I have her sign a Minor Guardianship Form with her name, and have it witnessed and notarized? Do I have her sign an affidavit? I am not sure what to do.
| Persons In Family Household | Poverty Guideline |
| For Households with more than 8 persons, add $4,480 for each additional person. | |
| 1 | $12,760 |
| 2 | $17,240 |
| 3 | $21,720 |
| 4 | $26,200 |
| 5 | $30,680 |
| 6 | $35,160 |
| 7 | $39,640 |
| 8 | $44,120 |