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Foreclosure Prevention - KLS can Help
Mortgage help First things first: There is free foreclosure help. If anyone tries to charge you in advance for help or guarantees that they can stop your foreclosure, they’re not legitimate. If you’re behind on your mortgage, or having a hard time making payments, we want to help.
Foreclosure Prevention
All About Reverse Mortgages
Frequently asked questions about reverse mortgages, loans that allow homeowners get access to their home equity as cash.
Foreclosure Prevention
Spousal Support - Maintenance
What Is Spousal Support? Spousal Support (also called Alimony or Maintenance) is assistance through money, open to those who were legally married. It is in credit to a partner’s role in the marriage and to help the recipient spouse achieve independence. It is either based on an agreement between the parties or awarded by the court. It is not automatically awarded in divorces or separations. The judge has to decide it's needed based on a set of factors.
Spousal Support
We help with foreclosures
I can’t make my mortgage payments. How long will it take before I’ll face foreclosure? Answer: The legal foreclosure process generally can’t start during the first 120 days after you’re behind on your mortgage. After that, once your servicer begins the legal process, the amount of time you have until an actual foreclosure sale varies.
Foreclosure Prevention
FAQs on Raising Children without Marriage and Paternity
Kansas Paternity Law Review: DNA Tests, Birth Certificates, and Legal Presumptions Wrong Father’s Name on the Birth Certificate Question: I signed the birth certificate of a child thinking she was mine.  I have since learned that the child is not mine. The mother has filed for child support and I had papers served on me. Is there anything I can do to get my name taken off the birth certificate? What should I do now?  
Paternity
Kansas Paternity (Raising Children without Marriage) Action
This page will provide information for parents who are unmarried and need court orders to establish parenting time, custody and child support.  A paternity suit is brought when a Court order is needed to identify the father of a child. This legal action allows the court to order child support and make orders about parenting time. Paternity issues may arise under some of the following circumstances:
Paternity
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Spousal SupportForeclosure PreventionPaternityClear All Filters
Foreclosure Prevention - KLS can Help
Mortgage help First things first: There is free foreclosure help. If anyone tries to charge you in advance for help or guarantees that they can stop your foreclosure, they’re not legitimate. If you’re behind on your mortgage, or having a hard time making payments, we want to help.
Foreclosure Prevention
All About Reverse Mortgages
Frequently asked questions about reverse mortgages, loans that allow homeowners get access to their home equity as cash.
Foreclosure Prevention
Spousal Support - Maintenance
What Is Spousal Support? Spousal Support (also called Alimony or Maintenance) is assistance through money, open to those who were legally married. It is in credit to a partner’s role in the marriage and to help the recipient spouse achieve independence. It is either based on an agreement between the parties or awarded by the court. It is not automatically awarded in divorces or separations. The judge has to decide it's needed based on a set of factors.
Spousal Support
We help with foreclosures
I can’t make my mortgage payments. How long will it take before I’ll face foreclosure? Answer: The legal foreclosure process generally can’t start during the first 120 days after you’re behind on your mortgage. After that, once your servicer begins the legal process, the amount of time you have until an actual foreclosure sale varies.
Foreclosure Prevention
FAQs on Raising Children without Marriage and Paternity
Kansas Paternity Law Review: DNA Tests, Birth Certificates, and Legal Presumptions Wrong Father’s Name on the Birth Certificate Question: I signed the birth certificate of a child thinking she was mine.  I have since learned that the child is not mine. The mother has filed for child support and I had papers served on me. Is there anything I can do to get my name taken off the birth certificate? What should I do now?  
Paternity
Kansas Paternity (Raising Children without Marriage) Action
This page will provide information for parents who are unmarried and need court orders to establish parenting time, custody and child support.  A paternity suit is brought when a Court order is needed to identify the father of a child. This legal action allows the court to order child support and make orders about parenting time. Paternity issues may arise under some of the following circumstances:
Paternity
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