Georgia Heirs Property Law Center
- To Volunteer, Contact:
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Location:
999 Peachtree StreetSuite 1625,Atlanta, GA 30309
- Map: maps.google.com
- Phone: 706.424.7557
- Website: https://www.gaheirsproperty.org/
Georgia Heirs Property Law Center helps heirs property owners, nonprofits, and municipalities remediate fractured title; increase equity; and transfer wealth to the next generation through title clearing, wills creation, estate planning, and facilitating access to government, private sector, and nonprofit land management/home improvement programs. The Center has offices in Atlanta, Athens, and Macon and targets outreach in southwest Georgia, Atlanta’s Westside neighborhoods, and southeast Georgia’s coastal region.
- State(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Georgia
- Area of law: Housing, Life Planning
- Populations Served: Elderly, General Public, Low Income, Nonprofits
- Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Nonlitigation Projects, Senior Lawyers, Small and medium law firm attorneys
- Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Flexible
- Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: Yes
- Training Provided: Yes
- Training Required: No
- CLE credit for trainings: Yes
- CLE credit for pro bono: No
- Mentoring or supervision offered: No
- Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
- Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Legal Research, Transactional work
- Other Project Types: Representation of heirs property owners in family negotiations, probate and quiet title actions; participation in wills clinics, especially serving rural Georgia; genealogy research and family tree assistance
- Volunteers may participate long-distance: No