Legal Readiness Checklist

INSTRUCTIONS: Legal assistance is a valuable benefit for Servicemember legal Readiness. Keeping legal affairs in order is as important to the military mission as being healthy and physically fit. To determine your legal readiness answer the following questions. The information you provide is protected and will not be disclosed without your permission. If you have checked any shaded box, you may have an issue that should be reviewed with a legal assistance attorney. Please contact your local Legal Assistance Office for an appointment or visit to find a Legal Assistance Office near you. A lack of legal readiness will not stop or delay deployment or mobilization but it will make life more difficult for the servicemember while executing the command mission.

Shaded boxes, when checked, signal a need for legal assistance regarding the bolded subject
/ YES / NO
1. Wills and Estate Matters
A. Do you have a will?
B. Are you married or do you have children?
C. Have you recently changed the status of your marriage, children or purchaseda house?
D. Do you have a durable power of attorney (survives incompetence)?
E. Do you have a living will and/or appointment of agent for medical decisions?
F. Do you have a power of attorney to manage your affairs during your mobilization?
G. Have your checked and updated your SGLI beneficiary and Death Gratuity designation to verify proper identification and distribution of your benefits?
2. Family Matters
A. Do you have a court case pending for divorce, child custody, child support, or spousal support?
B. If you are single, married but separated, divorced, or previously married with children, are there court orders in place for child custody and child and/or spouse support?
C. Are you required to have a Family Care Plan?
D Have you completed, reviewed and/or updated your Family Care Plan with in the last year?
D. Are you married to a foreign national without an alien identification number? (green card)
E. Are there pending immigration matters for you or a family member?
3. Consumer Matters
A. Do you own a motor vehicle? ( location/storage/licensing/registration/insurance)
B. Does your lease or finance contract allow you to remove the vehicle from the state/country?
C. Have you made arrangements to have your bills paid during your mobilization?
4. Civil and Criminal Court Matters
A. Do you have any legal proceedings pending where you are the plaintiff, defendant, or witness?
B. Do you have any unresolved traffic violations?
5. Property Matters
A. Do you intend to terminate your lease due to deployment or mobilization?
B. Will you have to rent your home to others because of your mobilization?
C. Are you pending foreclosure in the next year?
6. Servicemember Civil Relief Act Matters
A. Have you reviewed your rights under the SCRA
B. Will you need to terminate an automobile or residential lease due to mobilization?
C. Do you have property that has been or will be seized and sold for non-payment?
7. Tax Matters
A. Do you have tax issues with the federal, state, or local government?

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Rev 03/12