{"id":13,"date":"2022-06-21T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breakthecycle.org\/legal-services\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:30:56","slug":"legal-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/legal-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"column\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"region region-above-content\">\n<div id=\"block-block-12\" class=\"block block-block first last odd\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"node-975 node node-page view-mode-full clearfix\" data-quickedit-entity-id=\"node\/975\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\" data-quickedit-field-id=\"node\/975\/body\/und\/full\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"o877gxqusjkh4ofpr\">Break the Cycle provides legal services to young survivors of dating abuse <strong>in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC<\/strong>. Our legal services are free and are available to young people who are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12 to 24 years old<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Living in the Los Angeles County and Washington, DC metropolitan area<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Seeking help because of dating abuse, domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"o877gxqusjkh4ofpr\">Break the Cycle attorneys assist survivors of abuse with the following legal issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protection or restraining orders<\/li>\n<li>Violations of protection orders<\/li>\n<li>Child custody<\/li>\n<li>Visitation<\/li>\n<li>Child support<\/li>\n<li>Divorce<\/li>\n<li>Criminal case advocacy<\/li>\n<li>Title IX (school) advocacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Our attorneys also work closely with clients to ensure that their non-legal needs are met through safety planning and referrals to local domestic violence and social services.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Break the Cycle has no income eligibility requirements. We will provide bilingual help or interpreters at no cost to clients as needed; immigration status is not relevant to determining client eligibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o877gxqusjkh4ofpr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7c30af3e-8509-1250-2b92-e01262adacde\">Have questions? Want our help? For Los Angeles&#8217; legal services program, call 424.265.7346 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:legalservicesla@breakthecycle.org \">legalservicesla@breakthecycle.org<\/a>. For Washington, DC\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0legal services program call at 202.849.6289 ext. 1 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:legalservices@breakthecycle.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalservices@breakthecycle.<wbr \/>org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break the Cycle provides legal services to young survivors of dating abuse in Los Angeles, &#8230; <a title=\"Legal Services\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/legal-services\/\" aria-label=\"More on Legal Services\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}