No more legal aid for divorce and family cases

[Batteryhuman]

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So that would be women who get it in the neck in the interests of saving money again

i applied for legal aid in september for divorce/court costs and the department quibbled and quibbled dover my application kept sending it back for the sillest of reasons eventually after many phone calls from me and some from my solicitor they passed it, it took 8 weeks !!! i think they dragged their heels hoping i would get fed up or that this withdrawal of funds would kick in, terrible terrible decision to do this to women and children which is who will suffer in the main!

Hmm..

Well maybe if my DHs ex wife hadn't had Legal Aid she wouldn't have instructed her solicitor to write poxy letters regarding sending their child back in the wrong shoes or not agreeing to their child watching Pingu at 4.00pm.

Just saying.

I agree with BubbleOseven comments.
I believe that Nothing should be free.

[quote]Hmm..

Well maybe if my DHs ex wife hadn't had Legal Aid she wouldn't have instructed her solicitor to write poxy letters regarding sending their child back in the wrong shoes or not agreeing to their child watching Pingu at 4.00pm.

Just saying.[/quote]

Exactly ! My case has cost the taxpayer over 100k. it is a simple enough case and I am disgusted with my country for wasting money in this way.

Are people seriously suggesting that if they self represented in court and there was real EVIDENCE of serious domestic violence or child abuse,that a Judge/Magistrates would ignore that ?

IME we have a women stopping fathers seeing their children over idiotic, petty things that say more about their personalities and grip on reality than they do about child safety and positive development. When orders are made they break them.

Let your child's fathers see their children and stop trying to control everything the father does with the child as though the child's life depends on it.

Amaka you are wrong.

I believe everyone should be free to leave a bad relationship.

I prefer to live in a fair society, where people are treated fairly by the law, rather than a dog-eat-dog, everyone out for themselves environment.

Furthermore, Evidence shows that fairer societies are more successful (hence us falling back into recession with this crap government!)

Thunderballs - why do you think public policy should be based on one individual case? Do you think all women should be treated as if they were your dh's ex?

Perfectly middle of the road, non-political women's organisations, like the WI, are extremely concerned about these proposals and have lobbied ministers to try to make them understand it will put victims of domestic violence - including the children - at risk. Sadly ministers prefer to patronise women rather than listen to them.

Old thread. But children aren't just at risk from cases of serious physical violence - there are many forms of abuse, and most of them are difficult to prove, but the effects are long lasting.

I'm sure you can pull as many examples as you like out where ex-couples are fighting over petty things, but if you looked into it there would be hundreds more where there is an actual risk to the children, albeit one which doesn't leave bruises.