Making Legal Knowledge Accessible for Every Woman.
Plain-language guides to family, immigration, and workplace law. Free, confidential, and written for real life.
Our mission
Understanding the law should never depend on the language you speak, the money you have, or the person you married.
HerLegalFoundation creates free, plain-language legal education, built with and for women from South Asian and immigrant communities, and open to anyone who needs a trustworthy place to start. Every guide is reviewed by licensed attorneys and shaped by women who have lived the questions themselves.
Plain language
Written at an everyday reading level, in English, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi. No jargon without a translation.
Culturally aware
Our writers understand family pressure, community stigma, and immigration fear, because many of them have lived it.
Free and private
No paywalls, no accounts, and no record of what you read. A Quick Exit button is on every page.
Featured guides
Start with the questions women ask us most. Each guide explains what the law says, what you can do next, and who can help for free.
Protective orders, explained: what they can and cannot do
How to ask a court for protection, what happens at the hearing, and why you do not need a lawyer, a green card, or a police report to apply.
Your immigration status does not erase your rights at work
Minimum wage, unpaid overtime, and harassment protections apply to you regardless of your papers.
Divorce when you married abroad: documents, dowry, and mahr
What U.S. courts recognize from an overseas marriage, and how religious contracts are treated.
Opening your own bank account: a first step toward independence
You can open an account in your name only, even without a Social Security number.
What this work changes
Legal knowledge travels. One woman who learns her rights becomes the person her sister, her neighbor, and her daughter can ask.
I sat in the back of one workshop and learned my visa did not depend on staying married. That single sentence changed what I believed was possible.
Workshop participant, New Jersey