Types of Services We Offer
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Advance Health Care Directives
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Simple wills – restricted to certain estate values
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Powers of attorney – restricted to certain levels of assets
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Basic information on planning for incapacity
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Counseling on legal issues relating to elder abuse, caregiving and guardianship/conservatorship
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Limited general legal information and referrals
Some Types of Cases We DO NOT Handle
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Criminal Law (including traffic violations)
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Commercial or Income Producing Matters
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Claims Applications and Claims Appeals
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Personal Injury Matters
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Litigation
Community Services
UHELP has an attorney/professor, a program administrator/legal assistant and, occasionally, a law student research assistant. UHELP operates throughout the calendar academic year and provides limited basic legal services, advice, information and referral. Direct legal assistance, including assistance with wills and powers of attorney, is provided principally through the elder law clinic course in which law students are involved under the supervision of licensed attorneys. Note that UHELP is not permitted to assist with business or criminal law matters or with claims, personal injury or fee-generating cases. You may qualify for services if you are a resident of Oʻahu, you are 60 years or older and have limited income and assets or if you are a caregiver of an older person on Oʻahu and need information/referral on behalf of the older person. (Each case is evaluated according to its own merits and in accordance with staff capabilities and limited resources.)
UHELP invites our island community to attend various outreach programs designed to help kūpuna and their caregivers. Each year we sponsor our traditional “ ‘Nite’ of the Living Will” where we provide information concerning health care decision-making, including end-of life decisions and instruction and material needed to complete an Advance Health Care Directive. During the Spring and Fall semesters, we may sponsor other seminars that help “plan for the worst in order to expect the best.”
To find out if we can help you, please call us at 808-956-6544 or write us:
University of Hawaiʻi Elder Law Program
2515 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822
There are no fees charged for our services. Because of our limited staff and resources, we give priority to the most needy of clients.
Funding for UHELP is provided by the University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law with supplemental funding from the State of Hawaiʻi Judiciary and the Hawaiʻi Justice Foundation. |
