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Population Served: Seniors 60+, Santa Clara County resident
TDD:
Languages: Spanish
Warmline:
Ext.:
Fax: 408-295-7401
Email: info@sala.org
Description: SALA provides free legal services and community education to Santa Clara County residents who are age 60 or older to support local elders in their efforts to remain independent. SALA specializes in these types of legal matters and accepts cases in these areas as our resources allow: Public Benefits (Social Security and SSI (except disability cases), Medicare, Medi-Cal, In Home Support Services); Elder Abuse (restraining or protective orders (for elder abuse or domestic violence); Lodger Statue Evictions, revocation of powers of attorney (for fiduciary abuse)); Consumer (Medicare HMO or supplemental insurance disputes, long-term care insurance problems); Long Term Care (nursing home and residential care/assisted living issues, alternatives to instututionalization); Housing (landlord-tenant, subsidized/senior housing, mobile home residency); Incapacity Planning (advance health care directives, health care powers of attorney, uniform statutory form powers of attorney); Probate Alternatives (death of joint tenant affidavits, small estate affidavits (for estates valued at $100,000 or less); Simple Wills for elders with modest assets (formal wills (through SALA's no fee wills panel); California Statutory wills, holographic wills).
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Notes SALA is a non-profit elder law office whose mission is to support older persons in their efforts to live independently, non-institutionalized, and with dignity.
SALA also offers free presentations about Legal Planning for the Future (e.g. Wills, Trusts, or Advanced Directives) to groups of seniors through the Elder Law Education Project. To request a presentation, call the Central Office, 408-295-5991.
Avenidas Senior Center
450 Bryant
650-327-2811
Stevenson House
455 E. Charleston Road
650-494-1944
Address: Senior Adults Legal Assistance (SALA)
160 East Virginia Street, Suite 260 San Jose, CA
95112
Transporation: Home visits to elders who are homebound or institutionalized can be arranged.
