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6/8/2010 - SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Next time clients need a will, power of attorney or just have a legal question, they can visit the new Air Force Legal Assistance website at https://aflegalassistance.law.af.mil. The website is designed for active-duty and reserve component members, retirees and dependents.

Officials created the website to increase efficiency and track client satisfaction with the Air Force legal assistance program. Because it is a public site, clients may access the site's features from the comfort of their homes without a common access card.

The site's features include:
--Legal topics: Short papers on common legal-assistance topics such as wills and family law issues. It also contains links to other helpful sites.
--Legal worksheets: Access to online questionnaires for wills, living wills and powers of attorney. After completing the online worksheet, the website provides each client a unique "ticket number." Data entered by clients is secure and may be accessed only after clients visit their local legal office and provide their ticket numbers to legal office officials.
--Online survey: Following a visit to the legal office, clients are encouraged to provide feedback concerning the professionalism and helpfulness of our legal professionals.

Many clients have visited a legal office to obtain a will or other legal document and realized, after arriving, that they needed to gather more information or documents from home. Sometimes clients have realized they needed to speak with their spouse about an issue.

Completing an online worksheet will help minimize these multiple visits. By filling out an online worksheet, clients will be able to consider critical issues prior to visiting the legal office.

After receiving a ticket number, clients bring it to the legal office. An attorney or paralegal will then access a client's data with the ticket number and prepare the appropriate legal documents.

While the website increases convenience for clients, everyone should note the following:
--Information on the website is for educational and informational purposes only. The website cannot replace consultation with your local Judge Advocate General, and Airmen should never rely solely on the website when making decisions.
--Clients will not have the ability to print a legal document from the website. Clients will need to visit the legal office and provide their ticket numbers in order to obtain their legal documents.
--The website is designed for client convenience, but no one is required to use the website prior to visiting the legal office.



tabComments
10/10/2012 11:33:30 AM ET
Great idea for getting wills but it does not work. Each time i try to go to site it gives me a screen to obtain directions to Macdill. I know the way i just need my will updated. Help
brown avera jr, San Antonio Fl
 
9/20/2012 3:43:54 PM ET
Tried to use this site saveral attemps. Great idea confusing about form mumbers and for what purpose each is. The suite for Keesler AFB is no longer valid needs to be removed or fixed.
PATRICK, Ocean Springs MS
 
9/4/2012 4:35:52 PM ET
it appears that someone came up with a good idea and didn't follow up. read the above comments. I've had the same problems can't use the site can't get into it security msg comes up. all I want is a form for a will. I guess I will have to drive to nellis to get one.
king richards, henderson nv
 
6/21/2012 11:05:47 AM ET
Unable to connect with AFlegalassistance.law.af.milNeed forms to change wills for Wife andself. Thanks CJ
CJ, Universal CityTX 78148
 
3/20/2012 11:08:49 AM ET
Every time I try to enter the website a security notice comes up, so I have not been able to access either the will worksheet or a ticket number.
M. Dulier, Tampa FL
 
2/1/2012 2:38:52 PM ET
Every time i try to enter websiteblocked by security warning not to go there. what the heck is going on?
streff, sanantonio tx
 
1/24/2012 4:36:41 PM ET
I have been trying to get onto the Legal website and can't. I was told that it was my computer. DON'T THINK SO.
Gary Wayne Wever, NebraskaOffutt
 
7/10/2011 10:34:12 PM ET
That message that comes up "There is a problem with this website's security certificate" comes up on a number of other sites besides this one. You can just click on "Continue to this website not recommended" and press on to the site. It works just fine. I was just on the legal assistance website. It works just fine...
Passerby, Des Moines
 
7/8/2011 8:39:55 PM ET
Have been trying to access this site but keep getting a warning telling me not to go there. This seems to have been going on for at least a year. Is any thing being done to correct this problem? The site is totally unavailable and worthless the way it is at present.
Charles McGurk, San Antonio TX
 
2/25/2011 1:09:36 PM ET
I have tried https site 3 times and each time I get A Security warning telling me don't go there.
James L Newell, Casa Grande AZ
 
7/4/2010 6:59:59 PM ET
Found a note about the site in a retiree pub at Sheppard... Unfortunately they had the wrong title; left out the law.af.mil part. But still, when I go there i get a note from IE that the security cert is bad juju and don't open it. What gives af.JA?
Keith Heinemann, Wichita Falls TX
 
6/12/2010 5:44:49 PM ET
I, like several others, would like to know how to use this net. When I went to the NEW web site I ended up with Moody AFB NOT AF Legal services.
Frank, Cheyenne WY
 
6/10/2010 4:59:20 PM ET
I would also like to know how to use this service. We only have a Reserve Base here in the Twin Cities and the closest base for us is Grand Forks ND.
Allen C. Stroth Sr, Maplewood MN 55109
 
6/10/2010 7:55:01 AM ET
This is an excellent deal to include retirees. Something as important as legal documents certainly is worth the drive to the nearest legal office. @Earl-I'm 100 miles from the nearest military legal office. If you think 60 miles is far then I suggest moving closer to one.
Bruce, IN
 
6/9/2010 3:50:21 PM ET
As is mentioned how are we to use this and with the https site forget about opening @ home.
Terry , Rochester NY
 
6/8/2010 8:36:48 PM ET
Just where do the retired personnel fit in to all of this? The nerest legal office dto me is Edwards AFB and that is 60 miles away.
Earl, Tehachapi CA
 
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