Veterans Clinic 2010

At the Veterans Clinic, veterans and their family members were served with Attorney Grievance, Child Support, Consumer Law, Contract, Probate , Property, Taxes, Trusts/Wills, and VA benefits issues.Frank Furleigh and VFW post members, as well as two foreign exchange students from Thailand – Kade and View, helped with set up. Gail Furleigh, Frank’s wife, provided free lunch for volunteers and veterans.Abel Guerra of the Texas Veterans Commission graciously offered to come to the clinic and be on hand to field veteran benefits questions. Kay Sims, Ashley Grogan and Ron Riojas of the Houston Bar Association graciously met with the clinic coordinator in the weeks leading up to the event to offer the wisdom they’ve gained from their clinics.

Thank you to all of the Veterans Clinic volunteers: Judge Burwell; Maureen McCutchen, Laura Hughes, Chris Johnsen, and Susan Price of Mills Shirley; Allison Gamble, Chris King, and Elizabeth Spears of MAPA; Bill Glenn of Royston Rayzner; Bruce Mauzy of the Mauzy Law Firm; Erin Groce of the Groce Law Firm; Michael Hennen of Provost Umphrey; Blake Henshaw of Mills & Henshaw; Duana Loechel of Lone Star Legal Aid; and Susan Martin of the Galveston DA's office.  Additionally thank you to the following support staff members for volunteering: Melinda Hicks, Shirley Gina Williams, and Carla McLaughlin of MAPA; Mina Newman of Mills Shirley; and Sandy Hofstatter of Royston Rayzner.

Jeff Kilgore, board member of the Galveston County Bar Foundation presents a $1,000.00 check to Judge Janis Yarbrough, the presiding judge for the adoptions to be presented on November 21, 2009. The special adoptions hearings held at Moody Gardens are presented by voluntary attorneys and attorney ad litems representing children leaving the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services custody and going to permanent new homes with their new adoptive parents.