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Susan Eisenhower and Frankie Unanue Adele Stone, Susan Eisenhower, Anita Byer and Judge Renee Goldenberg Legal Aid Service of Broward County and Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida hosted their 2018 Bridge to Justice Breakfast fundraiser – a Morning with Susan Eisenhower.  The annual breakfast serves to increase awareness and raise critical funds...Read More

Monique* fled her home with her four children after her husband beat her severely. After accusing her of cheating on him, he slapped, punched, and kicked her while their children hid in a nearby closet. Her nine year old daughter ran to the phone and called 911. The arrest of her husband gave Monique and...Read More

For more than a year, Legal Aid attorneys tried to negotiate a loan modification for Alice*, a single mother with a young child. On the morning the trial was scheduled, the Legal Aid attorney confirmed with the bank that she was prepared to move forward with the trial. Within the hour, the bank’s attorneys made...Read More

Jane* has a serious illness and partial paralysis which requires treatment and a level of care that can only be provided in an assisted living facility. Her costs are covered by payments made directly to the facility from Medicaid and Social Security. Although the facility was accepting payment for approximately three years, they claimed that...Read More

Berbeth has been a staff attorney in the Senior Citizen Law Project of Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida since July 2010.  She litigates consumer rights issues dealing with mortgage foreclosure defense; debt collection related to condominium fees, credit card debt, auto deficiency collection and others; fraud and bankruptcy.  In the last two...Read More