
1. Can you give me advice about a legal problem I have?
Our site cannot give any legal advice or help with anyone’s specific legal problem; If you have a serious legal problem, there is no substitute for working with a lawyer. . .
If you cannot afford an attorney, contact your local Legal Aid Society . . .
NOTE— For some legal matters (e.g. a situation that is not a criminal matter, and no one is opposing you, and not much money is at stake), some people can handle some or all aspects of the legal issue themselves with the help of information and forms from very reputable sources (one such source is Nolo Press). Fairness.com LLC generally does not encourage this approach. For most people, even in low-stakes situations, we feel that self-help is not the best option; if the matter is serious or high stakes, don’t even consider it.
We sure wouldn’t want to encourage choice or fairness for consumers, some of whom do not have unlimited legal budgets or disposable income. [I’m not sure it’s relevant, but three of the five-member Advisory Board are lawyers]. For legal consumers, apparently, life is unfair and should stay that way.
The strange thing for me is that this anti-self-help-law position is the only policy position taken by Fair.com on any topic that I could find on the website (unless you count the fact that they only want sponsors and advertisers with a “squeaky-clean” image and reality).
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