Getting Info
Need legal information? Click on the links below to learn more about each topic. All COVID-19 information is found here.
Downloads are in PDF format.
Legal Information by Topic
Money and Debt
- Automatic Bank Debits
- Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy FAQs
- Common Sense Rules for Dealing with Creditors and Debt Collectors
- Contracts
- Consumer Credit Counseling
- Credit Access and Credit Reports
- Effective Consumer Complaints
- Fair Debt Collection
- How a Creditor Can Collect a judgment
- Garnishment
- Surviving Debt
- Homestead Deed
- Identity Theft
- Payday Lending
Wills & Power of Attorney
Family & Safety
- Adoption
- Annulment
- Back Child Support
- Child Custody and Child Visitation
- Child Support
- Collaborative Family Law
- Divorce
- Do-It-Yourself Divorce in Virginia
- How to Respond to a Complaint for Divorce
- How to Take a Child Custody or Visitation Case to Court
- Protective Order – Family Abuse
- Protective Order – Family and Non-Family Abuse
- Rules for People in Child Custody and Child Visitation Disputes
- Spousal Support and Equitable Distribution
Housing
- 8 Things tenants should know
- Bedbugs
- Evictions (including Lockouts and Utility Shutoffs)
- Expunging dismissed nonsuited evictions
- Fair Housing
- Federally Subsidized Housing – Tenant Based (Vouchers)
- Federally Subsidized Housing – Unit Based (including Public Housing)
- Foreclosure and Foreclosure Rescue Scams
- Know Your Rights: A Guide for Tenants Renting in the State of Virginia
- Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act
- Repairs
- Security Deposits
- Tenant’s Right to Prevent Eviction for Non-Payment of Rent (Redemption)
- What Happens if my Rental Housing is Destroyed
- Writ of Eviction (Eviction by the Sheriff)
Court Forms
Click below to go to the Virginia Court’s Website which has a collection of Forms you can use online
Need Extra Help?
Pre-recorded legal information
is available by calling 1-866-534-5243 (toll-free) before 9:00 a.m., after 5:00 p.m., and all day on weekends and legal holidays. Information is available about: Bankruptcy, Debt Collection, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Health Care, and Housing law.
Statewide Senior Legal Helpline
Legal assistance for Virginians aged 60 or over by calling (844) 802-5910. Topics covered by the Helpline: Long term care, Public Benefits, Guardianship, Age discrimination, abuse and neglect.
Virginia’s Statewide Legal Aid Website
This is a statewide website designed to provide legal information and other resources in most civil law issues.
Virginia Free Legal Answers
is a Website sponsored by the American Bar Association and maintained by the Virginia State Bar where volunteer attorneys will email you answers to non criminal law questions.
Virginia Judicial System Court Self-Help
is a website sponsored by the Virginia Access to Justice Commission which provides free information on a variety of legal topics.
Do-It-Yourself Divorce
For those who are over income and otherwise wish to do it yourself, please read carefully before proceeding: Virginia Poverty Law Center’s Do it Yourself Divorce in Virginia- https://www.valegalaid.org/resource/virginia-do-it-yourself-divorce-instructions