Muscatine Legal Services

Muscatine Legal Services seeks assistance in continuing the program that will offer a single-session clinic to assist indigent people in obtaining a divorce, custody and/or child support using volunteer law students under guidance of licensed attorneys.

Each clinic will serve up to 10 people with five volunteers from the local bar and University of Iowa College of Law students. This will be a volunteer opportunity for the Citizen Lawyer Program at the University of Iowa.

Funds are needed to enable Muscatine Legal Services to conduct two in-office clinics in 2025 that will match participants with law students and volunteer lawyers for self-representation.

This award would assist individuals with accessing the judicial system by removing both financial and educational constraints to their access to justice. It will also assist law students with real-life training on how an attorney

interacts with clients, spots legal issues, and forms a legal analysis.

This grant award will help Iowa’s future attorneys prepare for real-life work and client interaction. It will also assist the judicial system by relieving demands on the judicial system staff from demands by these individuals with pro-se

representation questions.