LEVITT & QUINN FAMILY LAW CENTER

Forty-four, federal budget cuts decimated legal services programs throughout the nation. In 1981, LevittQuinn’s founders—three retired grandmothers—stepped up to keep over 400 families from losing the critical legal help they needed. Begun as an all-volunteer effort in a small Silver Lake storefront with borrowed furniture and no real budget, today LevittQuinn is a certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose experienced staff and unique service model offers free and sliding scale help to those unable to access traditional legal aid and who cannot afford private counsel.

The Legal Aid Association of California recognized LevittQuinn’s executive director and legal services director with their Family Law Award in Direct Representation, and LevittQuinn attorneys have taken leadership roles in national, state, and local committees, boards, and coalitions.

LevittQuinn is a recipient of the 2025 Joseph Drown Award for Outstanding Services to Children from the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – California Chapter and is a past Congressional Angels in Adoption® honoree. LevittQuinn’s staff of 11, including six family law attorneys, provides services like no other California nonprofit. In 2024, LevittQuinn helped 1,625 clients and touched the lives of 2,221 children. Our attorneys and volunteers made hundreds of court appearances on behalf of financially vulnerable clients, giving them direct, quality legal representation to secure fair and enforceable court orders for child custody, financial support, and protection from abuse.

In addition to our inclusive family law services, our projects target the unmet needs of our community's most vulnerable members:
• The Kids Fund, established in 2014 to meet the growing community need for free legal services, provides very low-income parents free representation in family law cases that impact the safety and well-being of minor children including custody, child support, and domestic abuse.
• The Shriver Project, a groundbreaking project created by California's Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, provides free legal services to low-income families in high-stakes, high-conflict custody cases in which one side is represented by an attorney.
• The Veterans Project helps veterans to resolve unsettled family law issues such as accrual of debt owed to the government. The services help to remove barriers to employment and housing, thus reducing the risk of homelessness for our veterans.
• The Adoption Project is the only one of its kind in Los Angeles County that helps families seeking to protect a child whose biological parent is unwilling or unable to care for the child by providing them with a permanent, loving home through private (non-Dependency) adoption.
• The Modest Means Project allows people who earn too much for traditional legal services but too little to hire private counsel to find the help they need at LevittQuinn. Our sliding scale fee structure makes access to legal services affordable for these modest means families.
• The Beulah Fund is a resource to provide no-cost family law services for seniors or adults with disabilities living at or below 150 percent poverty.

In addition to our programs, judges appoint LevittQuinn’s attorneys to represent adults and children in high-conflict adoption and family-law cases. Judges also appoint us to protect the interests of active-duty service members in child support proceedings.