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-- Wise Older Person

Prepare for the Worst and Expect the Best!

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at UH Law School

Please call: 956-6544

This publication was funded through

the Hawaii Justice Foundation

with Support from the William S. Richardson School of Law

Services

Types of Services We Offer

• Advance Health care Directives

• Simple wills – restricted to certain estate values

• Powers of attorney – restricted to certain levels of assets

• Basic information on planning for incapacity

• Basic information about public benefits

• Counseling on legal issues relating to elder abuse, caregiving and guardianship/conservatorship

• Limited general legal information and referrals

Some Types of Cases We DO NOT Handle

• Criminal Law (including traffic violations)

• Commercial or Income Producing Matters

• Personal Injury Matters

• Litigation

Community Services 

UHELP has an attorney/professor, a program administrator/legal assistant and sometimes has a student law clerk. UHELP operates throughout the calendar academic year and provides basic legal assistance, advice, information and referral. UHELP is not permitted to assist with business or criminal law matters or with personal injury or other fee-generating cases. You may qualify for services if you are a resident of Oʻahu, you are 55 years or older and have limited income and assets or if you are a caregiver of an older person on Oʻahu and need legal assistance 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  kupuna and their caregivers. Each year we sponsor our traditional “ ‘Nite’ of the Living Will” where we provide instruction and material to complete an Advance Health care Directive. During the Spring and Fall semesters, we may sponsor other seminars that help “decide what matters and what to do.”

To find out if we can help you, please call us at 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. However, donations are welcome. 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, the State of Hawaiʻi Judiciary, the Hawaiʻi Justice Foundation and our community of donors.