Veteran and Military Families
Know Your Rights
Military & Veteran Legal Resource Guide
This is a booklet from the Virginia Office of the Attorney General to help military families and veterans about various legal resources. The booklet has different content areas, such as employment, education, taxes, family law, etc.
Benefits Fact Sheets
The fact sheets on this page provide basic information on VA benefit programs by category.
MilitaryHOMEFRONT
MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the Department of Defense website for official Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) program information, policy and guidance designed to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers. Whether you live the military lifestyle or support those who do, you'll find what you need.
Military Protective Orders
This page includes information about military protective orders and their protection on military bases.
Statesidelegal.org
This website is for members of the military, veterans, their families and advocates. Its goal is to help these groups access benefits, find free legal help and better understand their legal issues.
The Military and Custody and Child Support
This article describes custody and child support issues for military parents.
U.S. Armed Forces Legal Assistance
Use this link to locate active duty legal activities offering general legal services within the continental United States.
VA Provides Payments to Eligible Surviving Spouses
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) tries to quickly identify and pay surviving spouses who are eligible to receive the deceased veteran’s VA compensation or pension benefit for the month of the veteran’s death. This benefit is only payable to surviving spouses of veterans who were receiving VA compensation or pension benefits at the time of their death. Because VA does not always know if a veteran is survived by a spouse, some surviving spouses have not received the month-of-death benefit to which they are entitled.