Help Files

Help with HelpMeLaw

The HelpMeLaw website has four parts: Search, Legal Library, Helpful Organizations and Maine Courts. Whatever part of HelpMeLaw you are in, the "Help" link at the bottom of the page will take you to take you to a help screen with help for that part of the website. If you get lost, click on the "HelpMeLaw" sign in the upper left corner to go back to the home page.

Search

The search engine is the quickest and easiest way to find help with a legal problem or question. If you put in your county, age and income information, along with your search, you will get what information there is about your problem, groups and organizations that might help with that problem, and sometimes other information and assistance.

The search engine takes you to the websites of the organizations or agencies that provided the information. Most of that information doesn't exist on the HelpMeLaw website. To get back to HelpMeLaw, use the links at the top of the search return page.

If the search engine doesn't lead you to the information you need, you might try looking through our Legal Library, or contacting one of the groups in the Helpful in the Helpful Organizations part of HelpMeLaw

Legal Library

The Legal Library has information about lots of legal issues and problems affecting Maine low-income and elderly people. If you don't find what you need using the search engine, you might want to look through the library. It doesn't have information about every problem, and doesn't have much about criminal law, but it's worth taking a look. The library information is in "folders" on main library "shelves." Click on a "shelf" to open it, and then click on the "folder" that seems to be about what you are looking for.

The information in the Library actually sits on the websites of the organizations that produced it. If you find wrong or outdated informatin, contact us and the organization that created the information. We want to keep the Library as correct and up to date as we possibly can.

Helpful Organizations

The Helpful Organizations part of HelpMeLaw gives information about statewide organizations that provide legal help to low-income, disabled and elderly Maine people. There are links to each of those organizations' websites where you can find out more about them. There are other local organizations giving legal help, and other kinds of help, that you can find by putting your county, age and income information into the search engine.

Maine Courts

The section on Maine's Court System has information about Maine's courts, where they are and how they work. That section also has a link to the interactive court forms from the Pine Tree Legal Assistance website.