§ 31-2C-3 — Mission of Legal Assistance Program; Direction of Adjutant General

(a) The mission of the Legal Assistance Program is to assist eligible clients with managing their personal legal affairs in a timely and professional manner by doing all of the following:
(1) Meeting clients’ needs for information on personal legal matters.
(2) Resolving clients’ personal legal problems whenever possible.
(b) The Legal Assistance Program shall be under the direction of the Adjutant General. The mission of the Legal Assistance Program is based on military needs of readiness, morale, discipline, and retention according to the following:
(1) Readiness. Because soldiers, airmen, and emergency-essential Department of Defense civilian employees must be prepared for immediate mobilization and deployment, their personal legal affairs must be in order at all times.
(2) Morale. Fostering high morale of soldiers, airmen, and their families is an important aspect of readiness. High morale is enhanced by providing soldiers, airmen, and their families information, advice, and assistance responsive to their personal legal needs and problems.
(3) Discipline. Personal legal difficulties may cause low morale and disciplinary problems and may adversely affect combat readiness. Prompt legal assistance in resolving these difficulties is an effective preventive law measure.
(4) Quality. Providing legal assistance is part of the Alabama National Guard’s ongoing effort to maintain a quality of life that will attract quality people. The Alabama National Guard must take care of its own if it is to recruit and retain a quality force.
(5) Retention. In order to retain service members, it is the mission of the Alabama National Guard Legal Assistance Program to assist service members with legal matters on a no cost basis to promote retention.

Legislative History

(Act 2025-104, §2.)