• Mission Statement
Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center lawyers provide quality, low-cost legal services to persons living at low-to-moderate income levels to help them resolve their family conflicts.  Levitt &Quinn helps to restore stability to our clients’ lives and bring safety and financial security to their children.  

• CLIENTS
Levitt & Quinn  clients are men and women with family law problems who cannot afford the services of a private attorney and who are not adequately served by other non-profit legal service providers or government subsidized programs.  Priority is given to cases involving children and cases where irreparable harm would occur if legal assistance were delayed.   Referrals for our services come from family courts, non-profit legal service providers, private family law attorneys, social service agencies, and former clients.

THE NEED                                                                                      Over 70% of the litigants in L.A.'s Family Law Courts do not have an attorney to assist them.  The court refers many of these clients to Levitt & Quinn. No other non-profit organization or governmental agency provides the breadth of services and quick response to a family in crisis as Levitt & Quinn.

• LEGAL SERVICES

   Family Law Courts

Child custody and parenting plans, domestic violence restraining orders, spousal and child support, marital dissolutions, paternity actions, child support collection defense, and grandparent rights.

   Children’s Courts

Adoptions.

   Probate Courts

Guardianships of children.

   Distinguishing Features of Levitt & Quinn
     • Provides individualized consultation and legal advice with attorneys.

     • Offers attorney representation in Central Court and some Branch

        Courts.
     • Handles urgent matters in a timely fashion.
     • Facilitates access to the legal system for working families.

• BUDGET AND FEES
To apply for Levitt-Quinn services you must apply in person. Clients pay modest fees based on a family's income and number of children. Cost for services amount to a small fraction of what a typical for-profit law firm would charge. We charge fees since Levitt & Quinn receives no governmental funding 

• History
In 1980, government funding for family law services was withdrawn from Legal Aid.  Volunteer attorney, Ethel Levitt, and paralegal, Ziva Naumann, assumed responsibility for hundreds of family law files that otherwise would not have been completed. Ethel and Ziva opened and financed a modest storefront office to provide low-cost family law services to the community.  Attorney Grace Quinn, joined the pair and they developed a caring and efficient delivery model of legal service that continues today.  All three founders were over 50 years old when they launched Levitt & Quinn.   In 1988, the law firm was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. To date, Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center, Inc. has brought more than 40,000 cases to completion.