Mid-Missouri Legal Services
If you find yourself facing a potential legal issue but are unsure where to start, MMLS can help. We provide our low-income neighbors with legal advice, resources and even representation to help you address your legal issue. MMLS is in your corner.
View All ServicesWhat MMLS Does
MMLS protects families, prevents homelessness, removes barriers for work and helps to improve financial situations for low-income Missourians through legal advice, support, resources and representation.
Learn MoreAccess to Justice
Income can be a barrier to accessing the justice system. Legal services bring fairness to our justice system.
MMLS is committed to making legal information, resources and support available for low-income central Missourians, including men, women, children, domestic violence survivors, disabled, blind, elderly, rural, urban, of all ethnic backgrounds, lineage and religious beliefs, who cannot afford to hire an attorney, by providing free legal services ranging from advice and brief services to extended representation in court and administrative hearings.
Our Goal
Our goal is to ensure that lack of personal finances, remoteness of location and the encumbrances of poverty do not preclude anyone from their right to have redress of serious legal matters. The work of MMLS narrows the access to justice gap for central Missourians.
Get Legal HelpFamily Law
MMLS helps survivors of domestic and sexual violence safely separate from their abusers and protect their children by providing resources, legal advice, and representation in divorce, child custody, domestic abuse and other cases related to family matters.
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MMLS helps Missourians stay in their homes and avoid homelessness by providing information, advice, and representation to families facing landlord/tenant and other housing disputes.
Learn MoreConsumer Law
MMLS helps people with legal problems resulting from unfair, deceptive and fraudulent practices including unfair debt collection and predatory lending and helps protect a family’s income from debt collectors and others.
Learn MoreEstate Planning
MMLS assists with simple estate planning including wills, beneficiary deeds and powers of attorney. These plans bring peace of mind to Missourians who qualify for MMLS estate planning services.
Learn MoreExpungement: Sealing Criminal Records
A prior conviction can be a barrier to employment, public benefits, and other opportunities. MMLS helps low-income Missourians seal past criminal records and remove them from public record.
Learn MorePublic Benefits
MMLS helps Missourians who have been denied public benefits or education services get the benefits they need to meet their family’s basic needs.
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How We Help
Keeping Missouri families safe. Preventing homelessness. Improving financial situations. Increased access to the justice system for low-income Missourians achieves these goals and more.
By the numbers, each year:
Cases completed each year by MMLS attorneys.
adults and children impacted each year by MMLS attorneys.
veterans served each year at MMLS’s Veterans Law Clinic and at veterans outreach events.
individuals, including veterans, receive legal information, rights education and referrals each year.
Who Qualifies
MMLS provides free legal assistance for low income individuals and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. To be eligible for legal assistance applicants must meet financial guidelines, including income thresholds, live in or have a legal issue in one of the 11 counties we serve, and have a legal problem that we can handle.
MMLS Criteria
- Lives in or has a Case in the MMLS Service Area
- Meets MMLS income eligibility requirements
- Legal problem is the type that MMLS handles
Legal Problem Types We Handle
- Family Law
- Housing Law
- Consumer Law
- Estate Planning
- Sealing Criminal Records and Expungement
- Public Benefits and Education
Not Sure If You Qualify?
If you are unsure if you qualify for assistance from MMLS, please call us to discuss your issue or case and we can help determine your eligibility.
Contact MMLSCounties We Serve
- Audrain
- Boone
- Callaway
- Chariton
- Cole
- Cooper
- Howard
- Miller
- Moniteau
- Osage
- Randolph
Mission Statement
Mid-Missouri Legal Services (MMLS) provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people, domestic and sexual violence survivors, and other vulnerable populations in central Missouri. MMLS seeks to expand access to justice despite the encumbrances of poverty.
Values Statement
Mid-Missouri Legal Services (MMLS) is committed to zealous advocacy for the poor and vulnerable and ensuring they have access to justice. As an organization, we aspire to be an accountable, reliable, and accessible community resource that provides quality representation to our clients, always acting with respect, empathy, compassion, professionalism, and the highest ethical standards. MMLS attorneys and staff work together as a collegial and supportive team to uphold these commitments.
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A gift to MMLS supports our work in protecting Missouri families, keeping low-income Missourians from homelessness and providing better opportunities for people who qualify for our services.
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