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After contacting your solicitors in canterbury local Community Law Centre, you’ll speak with a lawyer who is right for you and your legal issue. Legal problems can be serious and frightening, and for many people lawyers are completely unaffordable. But everyone has the right to high-quality legal help – that’s where Community Law comes in. Your first step is to find a legal aid lawyer you want to advise and represent you. We provide legal education on a wide range of topics and we run sessions from our offices and from other venues in the community. Search our education calendar here to find a public education session that interests you.
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We are here to guide you through every step, helping to bridge disputes and achieve a final resolution. It is important that third parties understand their legal rights and responsibilities, as they may need to be formally joined to the proceedings, whether in parenting or property matters. A third party can be joined by a spouse party or may apply to the Court for a Joinder of Parties themselves (a legal process in which a third party is added to ongoing court proceedings). When a grant of Legal Aid is made, Legal Aid arranges for one of their in-house lawyers or a private lawyer to provide the individual with representation.
Both are crucial in separation or divorce, as all parents—biological, adoptive, or same-sex—are responsible for providing adequate financial support. Our practitioners understand the complexity involved in dividing property following separation. Whether you are in the early stages of negotiation, or need a settlement agreement to be legally documented, we will advise and support you throughout the process.
Each party has the right to obtain their own legal advice at any stage of the family dispute resolution process. We call the family dispute resolution practitioners who facilitate conferences 'chairpersons'. We have other family dispute resolution practitioners who oversee our case management program. Usually, this service will only involve one or two meetings with a Family Legal Advice Service lawyer. If you want to get more legal advice, you’ll need to either apply for legal aid or pay for the advice yourself. In 2017, we initiated a review of the CLSP to ensure it aligned with current expectations regarding the planning and delivery of legal services and accountability for expenditure of public money.
So we handle all family violence cases, child custody and interventions using a process which is in a highly-proficient, safe and secure environment. Our lawyers are experienced and sensitive towards clients dealing with family violence. We give you the advice you need to do what is best for your family and loved ones going forward. Provides free legal services for all children and young people under 25.
If a member of our team isn’t available in person, they will be available to provide telephone support. Our free Legal Helpline is available for preliminary information, general advice and referrals. Advice is usually restricted to a client's basic legal rights and obligations about a particular situation. If the problem is too complex or too lengthy for a phone call, a client may be offered an appointment at a Legal Services office or referred to other sources of assistance. We may also be able to provide advice on other legal issues depending on the circumstances. Print from the list option to get a list of practices in your location, and the areas of law they provide legal aid services in.
Our Youth Law Centre is a specialised service to help young people under 25 with legal problems. Succession law governs the distribution of a deceased person's assets and property, primarily under the Administration and Probate Act 1958 (Vic). To avoid intestacy (where a person dies without a valid will in place and the distribution of their assets is determined by the law), it is crucial to ensure a will is valid and reflects your wishes. If an agreement is reached, the Registrar will issue interim or final orders. If no agreement is reached, the matter will proceed to the next stage of the Court process.
Samantha Edwards is our trusted domestic violence lawyer, who is always on hand to support and care for her clients. Our divorce lawyers in Canterbury provide support for all types of separation, such as divorce or civil partnership dissolution. If you apply for legal aid to go to court, and we think a mediation might help, we may require you to attend a mediation first. Lawyers receiving a grant of aid are responsible for drafting any agreements reached at the conference.