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Article: Legal services a necessity for service members.(Commentary)
- Article from:
- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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I HAVE A SON IN THE MILITARY. My husband is a veteran. My personal experience makes me accutely aware now, more than ever, of the extraordinary demands continuously being placed on American service members and their families, particularly those subject to deployment or multiple deployments.
Did you know that the majority of service members qualify as low-income or below the federal poverty line? Of the host of problems facing our service members, they tend to have more family law, contract, consumer credit, tax and estate issues requiring legal counsel than ever before.
The greater dispersion of forces, with smaller, more mobile units, has challenged ...