MetLaw Legal Plan

MetLaw offers you and your family value, convenience and comfort in knowing you can access legal services for almost all personal legal matters.

This benefit is not offered to employees represented by United Teachers of Dade (UTD)

MetLaw Legal Plan

MetLaw gives you easy and low-cost access to a wide variety of personal legal services without deductibles, copays and usage limits when you use a network plan attorney. The plan covers you, your spouse and dependents and provides legal services from network and non-network attorneys.

  • MetLaw offers 18,000 network plan attorneys and freedom of choice.
  • Plan attorneys have an average of 25 years of experience and must meet stringent criteria to join MetLaw’s network.
  • No waiting periods to begin plan coverage. Start using the plan as soon as your coverage begins.
  • Wide variety of covered legal matters that pay the attorney fees 100% for services such as wills, estate planning, traffic ticket defense, debt matters, purchasing or selling your home and much more.
  • MetLaw, offered by MetLife Legal Plans, is the largest provider of group legal plans in the United States and has been in the business for more than 30 years.

MetLaw includes full representation without wait periods.

Benefits include: Legal Plan Coverage

In-office Legal Representation

The following benefits are 100% paid-in-full for attorneys’ fees when you use a Network Attorney.

  • Simple Will
  • Complex Will
  • Codicils
  • Living Will
  • Power of Attorney
  • Uncontested Guardianship/Conservatorship
  • contested Guardianship/Conservatorship
  • Uncontested Adoption
  • Contested Adoption
  • Name Change
  • Divorce (First 15 hours)
  • Spousal Divorce (partial reimbursement)
  • Modification of Support Order
  • Enforcement of Support Order
  • Consumer Protection Matters
  • Personal Property Protection
  • Debt Collection Defense
  • Small Claims Assistance
  • Juvenile Court Defense
  • Misdemeanor Defense
  • Immigration Assistance
  • Driving Privileges Restoration
  • Driving Under the Influence
  • Traffic Ticket Defense
  • Felony Defense
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Tenant Rental Issues
  • IRS Tax Audits
  • Identity Theft Defense
  • Personal Bankruptcy
  • Administrative Hearing Representation
  • Incompetency Defense
  • Demand Letter
  • Document Review
  • Elder Law Matters
  • Sale or Purchase of Home (Primary Residence)
  • Refinancing of Home (Primary Residence)
  • Home Equity Loan (Primary Residence)
  • Unlimited Telephone/Office Consultations
  • Negotiations with Creditors
  • Tax Collection Defense
  • School Hearings
  • Foreclosure
  • Garnishment Defense
  • Parental Responsibility Matters
  • Pet Liabilities

To locate a Network Attorney in your area, call the toll-free telephone number 1-800-821-6400 or visit: info.legalplans.com and enter access code 8900010.

You can select a local Network Attorney for legal representation – including review and document preparation.

You may also select a Non-Network Attorney and the plan will reimburse you according to a set fee schedule. The legal services available are listed on the MetLaw Legal Plan chart.

Reduced Fee Services

Reduced Fee Services

Personal Injury – Plan Attorneys will handle personal injury matters (where the participant is the plaintiff) at a maximum fee of 25% of the gross award.
Probate – 10% Network Discount

Unlimited Telephone and Office Advice

Unlimited Telephone and Office Advice

If you need legal representation for a legal situation that’s not fully covered by MetLaw, you can still save money by receiving a free phone/ office consultation for any personal legal problem that is not specifically excluded. The Network attorney will explain your rights, point out your options and recommend a course of action. Additionally, the Network attorney will identify any further coverage available through MetLaw.

Attorneys can easily handle certain issues over the phone and in office. You can consult with a Network Attorney over the phone as often as necessary for virtually any personal legal need, including:

  • General Legal Advice on virtually any legal matter
  • Will Preparation
  • Living Will Preparation
  • Durable Powers of Attorney Preparation
  • Small Claims Assistance
  • Follow-up calls and letters
  • Specific Document Preparation
  • Document Review
  • Debt negotiation
  • Tenant issues
  • Property protection
  • and more

Law Firm e-Panel

Law Firm e-Panel

Send questions directly to attorneys via email at any time and receive answers electronically.

Identity Theft Services

Identity Theft Services

As a member, this service provides you with consultations with a network attorney regarding potential creditor actions resulting from identity theft and provides attorney services as needed for the following;

  • Contact creditors.
  • Contact Credit bureaus and financial institutions.
  • Provides defense services for specific creditor actions over disputed accounts such as limiting creditor harassment.
  • Provides representation for any action that arises out of identity theft such as foreclosure, repossession or garnishment, up to and including trial if necessary.
  • MetLaw provides online help and information about identity theft and prevention.

Immigration Coverage

Immigration Coverage

To assist in the immigration process, the MetLaw plan offers the below services:

  • Telephone/Office consultations for questions regarding the immigration process.
  • Preparation of affidavits.
  • Preparation of powers of attorneys.
  • Review of any immigration documents.
  • Assistance in preparing the participate for hearings.

Legal Tools and Resources

Legal Tools and Resources

MetLaw provides you with easy online access to legal resources and tools, including:

  • An extensive law guide of articles on everyday legal topics ranging from traffic tickets to personal assets.
  • E-newsletters – deliver the latest legal plan news right to your inbox.
  • Do-it-yourself personal legal documents.
  • Attorney Locator for more than 18,000 nationwide attorneys.
  • Legal Needs Test and Life Advice.
  • Cost Calculator so you can predict a legal issues’ impact on your life.

Elder Law Matters

Elder Law Matters – MetLaw Exclusive

Protecting you and your family is important. MetLaw provides you with Elder Law coverage that covers counseling over the phone or in-office on any personal issues relating to your parents as they affect you:

  • Reviewing documents of the parents
  • Medicare or Medicaid material review
  • Prescription plans
  • Leases
  • Nursing home agreements
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Living Wills and Wills
  • Also includes preparing deeds involving the parents when the participant is either the grantor or the grantee.
  • Preparing promissory notes involving the parents when the participant is the payor or payee

Tools and Resources

Exclusions

Plan exclusions include actions between you and your employer, union, fellow employees, insurance carriers, MetLife and affiliates, and Plan Attorneys, or anyone else when prohibited by law; business matters (such as farm and rental properties when the participant is the landlord), investment properties; patents or copyrights, appeals; class actions; filing fees, court costs, and miscellaneous costs; workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation and probate cases; actions between you and your dependents; frivolous or unethical matters; matters for which an attorney-client relationship exists prior to plan eligibility.

 

MetLaw Legal Plan & Senior Plan
Mon - Fri, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET
1-800-821-6400
Access Code: 8900010

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