Pay it forward for someone who can’t fight alone.
Faretta Legal is a Texas LLC, not a 501(c)(3) — contributions are not tax-deductible. Your sponsorship doesn’t fund a building or a salary. It funds the next pro se litigant who walks in our door without $500 to their name. The CPS family, the veteran, the wrongful eviction, the person fighting their own case from inside.
Plain English: you sponsor someone else’s case, we do the work, they get the help, you get the case-update emails.
WHO YOU’RE HELPING
Real people, not abstractions.
These archetypes walk in every week. None of them have lawyers. Most of them can’t pay the $19 or $97 it would cost to get organized. Sponsorship dollars unlock the work for the next person who walks in without a wallet.
Mom or dad with kids in foster care, a court date in 14 days, no attorney, and a stack of paperwork they don’t understand. Your sponsorship buys them a timeline a judge can read in 60 seconds.
VA denied the disability claim. Discharge upgrade stalled. Or a custody case where the other side is using military service against them. Your sponsorship covers the public-records pulls and the appeal letter.
Tenant has 30 days, a landlord with an attorney, and a job that can’t miss two days for court. Your sponsorship covers the answer-to-petition draft and the exhibit pack.
Someone fighting their own habeas, civil rights case, or §1983 claim from inside. Mailed motion drafts. Hand-typed exhibits. Your sponsorship buys the transcript fees and the certified-mail postage.
A whistleblower who needs the public-records request filed correctly so the agency can’t stall it. Your sponsorship covers the PIA / FOIA fees and the ground-truth follow-up.
HOW THE MONEY MOVES
Every dollar goes to a case, not to the operator.
Faretta Legal isn’t a law firm and never will be. The lane is investigative work, paperwork organization, and pro se advocacy — every service in the catalog is priced so an ordinary person can afford it ($5 motion skeletons, $19 quick case directions, $497 done-for-you trial binders). Those flat fees keep the doors open and pay the operator. Sponsorships don’t pay the operator. They pay for someone else’s case. Transcripts, filing fees, public-records requests, hours of organizing a stranger’s evidence into something a judge can read in 60 seconds.
WHAT EACH DOLLAR PAYS FOR
Concrete, not abstract.
- $5 covers one PACER court-record pull for someone who can’t
- $25 covers a 30-minute transcript review on a hardship case
- $50 covers one public-records request round trip
- $100 covers half a day of investigation time on a pro-bono matter
- $500 covers a full case-review for a family that walked in with nothing
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
Pick a case to sponsor.
Five bucks a month. Pools across hundreds of supporters into the pro-bono fund — the people who can’t pay anything still get help.
Stand with us monthly →Covers one $19 Quick Case Direction for someone who can’t afford it. They get a real answer about their case from a real human; you fund it.
Sponsor a $19 direction →Covers a Case Timeline Starter for one pro se litigant. They walk into court with a one-page chronology a judge can actually follow.
Sponsor a $27 timeline →Funds a full Initial Case Review for someone fighting alone — timeline, exhibit list, what to file next, what they’re missing. Often the difference between losing and surviving first contact.
Sponsor a $97 review →Underwrites the full done-for-you package for one family who can’t pay anything — timeline, exhibits, evidence triage, the works. We do the work, they get the help, you get the case-update emails.
Sponsor a hardship case →Faretta Legal is a Texas LLC, not a 501(c)(3). Contributions are NOT tax-deductible. We’re transparent about it because your trust matters more than a write-off. Stripe processes every payment securely — we never see your card data. Want to sponsor a different amount, or earmark a specific case from Case Files? Email Ryan@RealRyanNichols.com or call (903) 345-8990.
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