County:  

• Bernalillo

Website:

• http://www.seconddistrictcourt.com/

District Court Information:

• Bernalillo County
  400 Lomas, N.W.
  Albuquerque, NM   87102
  (505) 841-7425, fax (505) 841-7446

District Court Hours:

• 8 a.m. – noon, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. (Domestic Relations Division is open during lunch hour.)

District Court Filing Fees:

• Civil Filing Fee: $122.00

• Domestic Relations Filing Fee: $137

District Court Copy Costs:

• 35 ¢ / page

• $1.50 for certifications

• $10.00 for packets

Pro Se/Self-Represented Litigant Resources Offered by the District:

• Pro Se Court Clinic 
  Provides help on child custody and visitation issues and on disputes arising from court orders.
  Albuquerque
  (505) 841-7409
  
  
• Legal FACS Program:
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Courthouse Lawyer Service
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Eviction Process
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Filing a Motion for Free Process
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Metro Courthouse Lawyer Service Brochure
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Resolving Disputes Over Child Custody, Visitation or Time-Sharing
  
  Legal FACS Brochure: Understanding Immigrant Victim's Rights
  
  
  The Courthouse Lawyer is a self-help legal service provided by Legal FACS. Volunteers, who are licensed attorneys, donate time to help low income people represent themselves in Domestic Relations, Name Change, and Small Claims Cases.
  
  Location: The Courthouse Lawyer Service is located on the 2rd floor of the Bernalillo Courthouse, in the Pro Se Division area, Room 273, and Room 210 of the Metropolitan Court. The District Courthouse is located at 400 Lomas N.W. and the Metropolitan Court is located at 401 Lomas N.W.
  
  Office Hours: 8-12 and 1-5 weekdays
  400 Gold SW, Suite 106
  Albuquerque, NM 87102
  (505) 256-0417
  
• Clerk’s Office
  Provides packets related to family issues, gives feedback on submitted forms, provides basic information on bonds, conditions of release, probate and guardianship issues, wills, adoption, and property issues.

• Domestic Relations Division
  Accepts domestic relations documents for filing. Provides limited basic information about procedures, and does not provide legal advice.
  (505) 841-6773

• Domestic Violence Division
  Accepts filings for restraining orders and does not provide legal advice.
  (505) 841-6731

• Victim Impact Program
  Assists with restraining orders and information about pressing criminal charges.
  (505) 841-7020

Other District Court Information:

• Please note that fax filings are accepted.

• The Domestic Relations Division is open during the noon hour.

County Clerk Information:

• Bernalillo County 
  http://www.bernco.gov/clerk
  One Civic Plaza, NW, 6th floor
  Albuquerque
  (505) 768-4090, fax (505) 768-4631
  email: clerk@bernco.gov
  M-F, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Child Support Enforcement Division:

• Region III
  625 Silver Street SW, Suite 400
  Albuquerque, NM  87102
  (505) 841-4444

• Region VII
  600 2nd Street NW, 6th Floor
  Albuquerque, NM  87102
  (505) 841-9636

• Region VII satellite
  600 Central Ave. SW, 2nd Floor
  Albuquerque, NM  87102
  (505) 841-9969

Legal and Other Related Resources:

• State Bar of New Mexico
  Provides information on legal resources.
  Albuquerque
  1-800-876-6227
  (505) 797-6000

• Albuquerque Bar Association
  Provides information on legal resources, including names of local lawyers and 30-minute consultation/case assessment with a private attorney for only $30.
  Albuquerque
  (505) 243-2615

• PLSD Referral Program - State Bar of New Mexico Referral program offers a 30-minute consultation/case assessment with a private attorney for only $27. 
  1-800-876-6227 or (505) 797-6066
  M-F, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

• Legal Aid Society of Albuquerque                                                                  
  Provides help with restraining orders, divorce and custody issues, and housing, social security and other public benefit issues.
  (505) 243-7871

• Indian Pueblo Legal Services, Inc.
  Provides free legal services on domestic violence issues and assistance with forms.
  Rio Grande Pueblo Office
  Bernalillo
  1-800-867-3452
  (505) 867-3391

• Senior Citizens Law Office (SCLO)
  Legal services for people over 60; wills, Power of Attorney, etc.
  (505) 265-2300

• Southern New Mexico Legal Services
  Hotline: 1-800-376-7665
  (505) 623-9669

• Landlord/Tenant Info-Metro Court
  Eviction Forms, Landlord Forms, etc.
  (505) 841-8160

• Dads Against Discrimination (DAD)
  Provides counseling and information, and guidance through the legal system.
  (505) 299-2673

• DNA Testing
  Provides paternity testing service.
  (505) 342-8064

• New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department
  http://www.cyfd.org/
  Provides information and resources for children and youth.
  1-800-797-3260
  (505) 827-8456 (in Santa Fe)

• Albuquerque Family and Child Guidance Center
  Provides counseling for custody issues and sponsors the “Wise Person Program”  to help parents.  Provides individual and family counseling, and substance abuse counseling.
  (505) 232-5239

• Grandparents Rights
  Provides information on visitation and kinship guardianship issues.
  1-800-432-2080

• Law Access NM
  Phone consult hotline for civil cases, LLTT, emancipation, bankruptcy, consumer complaints, employment, SSI, liens, civil restraining orders.
  (505) 998-4529 or (800) 340-9771

• Lawyer Referral for the Elderly (LREP)
  Serves people 55 and over by providing legal advice and referrals.
  1-800-876-6657

• New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  This statewide networking service organization deals with domestic violence issues and provides a full range of family services, including counseling.
  1-800-773-3645

• Women's Community Association Family Program
  Provides domestic violence counseling and counseling for teenagers and emotional abuse, and provides positive play groups for kids ages 4 to12.  Groups meet on evenings and weekends.
  (505) 262-4324

• Enlace Comunitario
  Provides counseling and civil legal assistance to Spanish speaking victims of domestic violence issues. Serves 310 Valverde Dr. SE, Albuquerque.
  (505) 246-8972

• Youth & Family Counseling
  5100 2nd St. NW
  Albuquerque
  (505) 841-7374

• Pegasus
  Children guardianship, emancipation, kinship, special Ed. (505) 244-1101

• Albuquerque Indian Center, Inc.
  Provides counseling for individual and family crisis, and women’s group counseling.
  (505) 268-4418

• Domestic Violence Legal Help Line
  Provides legal aid and forms.
  (505) 243-4300

• US Bankruptcy Court
  Provides "Do-it-yourself" Bankruptcy forms.
  (505) 486-2500

• TVI Paralegal Law Center-South Valley Campus
  Provides free legal services to South Valley Residents. (505) 224-5080

• Catholic Social Services
  Provides legal assistance for immigration and domestic violence issues for victims, seniors, and homeless women and children.
  (505) 247-0442 or (505) 247-9521

• UNM Indian Law Center
  Native American legal issues.
  (505) 277-5462

• NM Guardianship Project
  Children only help for Grandparents; Guardianship Forms. (505) 256-9369

• GAIN
  Grand Parents are Indeed Necessary; advocates for grandparent's visittion rights.
  (505) 296-3589

Mediation:

• New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution     
  http://www.nmcdr.org
  Provides some mediation services for visitation rights.
  1-800-249-6884
  (505) 247-0571, fax (505) 242-5966

Shelters:

• Esperanza Safe House
  Provides transportation to the shelter from any county. The location is confidential.
  Offers individual and group counseling, and helps to obtain restraining orders and other resources.
  1-800-473-5220
  (505) 473-5200 

• All Faiths Receiving Home, Inc.
  Provides emergency shelter care for children up to age 12 whose parents are experiencing a crisis, and provides family counseling.
  (505) 345-8938

• Barrett House
  Provides emergency shelter for women, and women with children. Provides dinner and clothing.
  (505) 243-4887

• Morning Star House, Inc.
  Provides victim advocacy, crisis intervention, counseling, and parenting programs, and helps with legal forms.  Serves tribal communities.
  (505) 232-8299

• Salvation Army Family Services
  Provides overnight shelter for women, and helps with restraining order forms and hearings.
  (505) 761-9818

• St. Martin’s Hospitality Center
  Provides day shelter, counseling, housing, diapers, showers, and crisis intervention.
  (505) 843-9405

• Women’s Community Association
  Looks at domestic violence issues.  Serves Bernalillo, Sandoval and Torrance Counties.
  (505) 247-4219

Libraries with Internet Access:

• U.N.M. Law Library
  Provides library services and can help with research.
  Albuquerque, NM 87131
  (505) 277-6236

• Rio Grande Valley Library System
  http://www.cabq.gov/library

• Alamosa Library
  Offers computer and internet classes. 
  6900 Gonzales Rd. SW
  Albuquerque, NM 87121
  (505) 836-0684 
  M-F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

• Cherry Hills Library
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  6901 Barstow NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87111 
  (505) 857-8321
  T, W 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Th, F & Sat., 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

• East Mountain
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  Hwy. 333 (next to Tijeras Post Office)
  Tijeras, NM 87059  
  (505) 281-8508 
  T, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; W, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Th, noon – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat,10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Erna Fergusson
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  3401-A Monroe St. NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87110
  (505) 888-8100 
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
  Note: The Erna Fergusson branch library will close on August 11, 2001 for reconstruction and renovation and will reopen in Spring 2003 on the existing site. Temporary library service will be provided at 3401-A Monroe St. NE, next to the McKinley Community Center.

• Ernie Pyle
  900 Girard SE
  Albuquerque, NM 87106
  (505) 256-2065
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Juan Tabo
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  3407 Juan Tabo NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87111
  (505) 291-6260
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun, noon – 5 p.m.

• Lomas Tramway
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  908 Eastridge NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87123
  (505) 291-6295
  T, W 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Th, F &  Sat,10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Los Griegos
  1000 Griegos Rd. NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87107
  (505) 761-4020
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun, noon – 5 p.m.

• Main Library
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  501 Copper Ave. NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87102
  (505) 768-5140, (505 768-5141 (reference)
  M –Th, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat,  - 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• North Valley
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  7704 Second NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87107
  (505) 897-8823
  T, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; W, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Th, noon – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• San Pedro
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  5600 Trumbull SE
  Albuquerque, NM 87108
  (505) 256-2067
  T & W, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Th, F &  Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• South Broadway
  1025 Broadway SE
  Albuquerque, NM 87102
  (505) 764-1742
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• South Valley
  3904 Isleta Blvd. SW
  Albuquerque, NM 87105  
  (505)  877-5170
  T, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; W, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Th, noon – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Taylor Ranch
  5700 Bogart St. NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87120  
  (505) 897-8816
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun, noon – 5 p.m.

• Westgate Heights 
  1300 Delgado SW
  Albuquerque, NM 87121  
  (505) 833-6984
  T – Sat, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

• Wyoming Branch Library
  Offers computer and internet classes.
  8205 Apache NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87110
  (505) 291-6262 , (505) 291-6264 (information)
  M-Th, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• Rio Rancho Public Library
  950 Pinetree Rd. SE
  Rio Rancho, NM 87124
  (505) 891-5013 
  M-Th, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; F &  Sat, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m

• Belen Public Library
  http://www.golibrary.org/belen/default.asp
  333 Becker Avenue
  Belen
  (505) 864-7797
  email: Belenlib@nm.net
  M-Th, 9 a.m.- 6 p.m.; F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat.  9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

• Bosque Farms Public Library
  1455 W. Bosque Loop
  Bosque Farms, NM 87068
  (505) 869-2227
  email: bfpublib@yahoo.com

Department of Motor Vehicles:

• Cottonwood Mall
  1000 Coors Bypass Blvd. NW
  Albuquerque, NM.  87114
  (505) 890-5799

• Furrs Emporium
  111 Coors Rd. NW
  Albuquerque, NM  87121
  (505) 352-0693

• Galeria
  20 First Plaza, Ste. 66
  Albuquerque, NM  87102
  (505) 764-6650

• Rio Bravo
  3211 Coors Blvd. SW G4
  Albuquerque, NM  87102
  (505) 452-9240

• Winrock Mall
  #265
  2100 Louisiana NE
  Albuquerque, NM  87107

• Bernalillo
  829 Camino del Pueblo
  Bernalillo, NM  87004
  (505) 867-5171 

Sheriff’s Department:

• Bernalillo County Sheriff
  401 Roma NW
  Albuquerque, NM 87125
  (505) 768-4100 

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