Key legal question
Whether the claimant qualified as indigent for legal aid despite owning real estate
Extracted holding
Yes. In the concrete circumstances, the property could not be treated as available assets that the claimant had to consume before receiving legal aid.
Extracted reasoning
Although the property value lay within the usual reserve-of-emergency range, the court held that the claimant was 55, widowed, without gainful activity, and had to care for her ill mother; on these facts, she could not reasonably be required to exhaust that reserve.