Since 2010, Indiana Legal Services has partnered with healthcare providers throughout Indiana to provide civil legal services to patients of Indiana healthcare providers without charging attorney fees. These partnerships, known as medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), are funded by the healthcare partner and focus on improving patient health outcomes and reducing healthcare costs by using the law to address legal issues known to negatively impact a patient’s ability to become well and stay well.

Indiana Legal Services has MLPs with numerous healthcare providers across Indiana. Our MLPs allow ILS’ MLP teams and our healthcare partners to work together to identify and assist patients whose health is being negatively impacted by civil legal issues. Our MLP teams help patients with various civil legal issue(s) and patients are referred to the MLPs through their healthcare provider.

If you need help with a legal issue, please ask your medical or mental health provider for a referral to its medical-legal partnership.  A referral to the MLP can provide wrap-around services that may meet both your medical and legal needs.

What is an MLP?

An MLP is a collaborative health care and legal services delivery model that embeds lawyers and paralegals onto a healthcare team to address legal issues that impact patient health outcomes. Through this collaboration, the MLP works to identify and address issues that are impacting individual patients and issues that impact patients as a whole. The MLPs at ILS handle a wide variety of civil legal case types.

What is an MLP?
Housing stability

Eviction and homelessness avoidance, poor living conditions, public and private housing

Re-entry

License reinstatement, criminal record expungement

Family law

Divorce, custody/parenting time modification, domestic violence/protective orders

Life Planning

Wills, advanced directives, guardianship (adult and minor)

Immigration

Immigration status, asylum

Public benefits

Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

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Non-criminal, civil legal issues including public benefits such as food stamps, SSI/SSDI terminations, unemployment, land sale contracts, etc.

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The application should take about 20 minutes to complete. You will need to answer questions about your income, assets, and household size. Submitting an application does NOT mean that we will accept your case. You should hear from us within about 14 days with a decision on whether we will be able to take your case.

Indiana Legal Services, Inc. (ILS) is a nonprofit law firm and the largest provider of free civil legal assistance to eligible low-income people in Indiana. ILS helps clients who are faced with legal problems that harm their ability to obtain basic needs such as food, shelter, income, medical care or personal safety. ILS also handles cases in other areas including family law where there is domestic violence, housing, consumer law, access to health care, and access to government benefits. ILS does not handle any criminal matters.