ABOUT US

Nature Coast Legal Services is an affordable non-lawyer alternative serving greater Mid-Central Florida. My name is Susan L. Dunham, I am the owner and operator of NCLS.  I am a retired litigation paralegal in Mid-Central Florida of 25 years, working exclusively in law fiems for 25 years specializing in marital and family law forms, real estate forms, and estate planning forms.  I began NCLS in August 2016 with aspirations of assisting Florida residents with various Court processes allowing citizens to represent themselves in a variety of actions.  Since then, I have assisted hundreds of families throughout Florida receive the legal remedies they had long been needing by providing excellence in self-help forms preparation at affordable prices.  

 

At Nature Coast Legal Services we pride ourselves on ethical, honest and professional assistance to our community members when they are in need of court forms or assistance with self-help forms and services.  

NCLS is NOT a law firm NOR do we staff any attorneys.  We are NOT able to provide you legal advice.  We do not provide legal representation of any kind and we do NOT staff attorneys. 

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What we can do is help you navigate your local Clerk's office and the court process.  We can assist you in the completion of the document packages for the initiation of your action and we stay available to you until the end when you've obtained final judgment.  We offer e-filing of your case through Florida's E-Filing Portal as a courtesy to all of our litigation clients. We can assist you with the service of process of your case with a large network of process servers throughout all 50 states.  We have the information for your County's requirements for Florida's Parent Stabilization Course for court actions involving minor children.  We can aide you with your mediation by directing you to your County's Court Mediation Services.  Additionally, NCLS is proud to be your premiere Certified Process Servers for Florida's 5th Judicial Circuit.  We will work with you to effectuate service of process nationwide and globally making sure to meet your court deadlines for service of process,  If we cannot effectuate service and you need to publish, we will gladly assist you in that process s well.

 

There are instances where NCLS is unable to help.  At NCLS, I take it very seriously when I am not the best option for one of our community members in what is often a critical time of need. We are proud that we can often assist our clients with the necessary referrals for representation by local counsel. 

We have a network of more than 100 lawyers for referral services to meet your legal needs if  we are unable to assist you.

We are grateful to be serving you in your community and we are honored to assist you however we can!  Call today for your FREE consultation or quote for assistance!  If we cannot help you we know who can! 

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Blessings to you all, 

Susan L. Dunham