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Home > For lawyers > Policy Online > Guidelines > 2. Family law matters

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• 1. Criminal law matters
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. What is appropriate expenditure of limited public funds?
  • 1.3. Costs in indictable matters
  • 1.4. Local Court committal proceedings - State criminal matters
  • 1.5. Criminal law matters involving both Commonwealth and State law
  • 1.6. Proceeds of Crime
  • 1.7. Apprehended Violence Orders
  • 1.8. Late applications
  • 1.9. Restorative Justice Programs
  • 1.10. Statutory and administrative financial assistance schemes by the Commonwealth Attorney-General - Administered by the Legal Aid Branch
  • 1.11. Term of imprisonment
  • 1.12. Criminal law policies
  • 1.13. Exceptional circumstances
  • 1.14 Assessing merit in appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal
• 2. Family law matters
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Urgent matters
  • 2.3. Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) Service
  • 2.4. Independent children's lawyer and child representatives
  • 2.5. Material change in circumstances
  • 2.6. Child support or maintenance and spouse maintenance matters
  • 2.7. Allegations of domestic violence
  • 2.8. Family law costs management
  • 2.9. Briefing counsel
  • 2.11. Disputes relating to preservation of property
  • 2.12. Significant disadvantage
  • 2.13. Care and Protection matters
  • 2.14. Single expert reports
  • 2.15. Special circumstances
  • 2.16. Special disadvantage
  • 2.17. Statutory and administrative financial assistance schemes by the Commonwealth Attorney-General - Administered by the Legal Aid Branch
  • 2.18. Substantial issue
  • 2.19. Significant financial benefit
• 3. Civil law matters
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • 3.3. Employment law matters
  • 3.4. Visa cancellation matters
  • 3.5. Lump sum grants for test cases and public interest matters
  • 3.6. Motor accident matters
  • 3.7. Proceeds of crime matters- Commonwealth only
  • 3.8. Test Cases
  • 3.9. Industrial relations matters
  • 3.10. Commonwealth civil law matters
  • 3.11. Statutory and administrative financial assistance schemes by the Commonwealth Attorney-General - Administered by the Legal Aid Branch
  • 3.12. Consumer Protection matters and External Dispute Resolution
  • 3.13. Fees in Veteran's matters
  • 3.14. Public Interest
  • 3.15. Legal Aid NSW Civil Law Policies
  • 3.16. At special disadvantage
  • 3.17. Family disputes
  • 3.18. National Disability Insurance Scheme
  • 3.19. Special circumstances
  • 3.20 Breach of civil liberties
• 4. Means Test
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.3. Granting aid when net assessable income is above the income limit or applicant does not satisfy Means Test
  • 4.4 Financially associated person
• 5. Contributions
  • 5.1. Paying Initial Contributions
  • 5.2. Reducing or waiving an initial contribution
  • 5.3. Refunding an initial contribution
  • 5.4. Securing contributions with a charge over real property
  • 5.5. Calculating the contribution to legal costs
  • 5.6. Notifying the legally aided person of the contribution to legal costs
  • 5.7. Costs assessment of private lawyers' costs
  • 5.8. Reducing a contribution to legal costs
  • 5.9. Assigning the right to recover costs
  • 5.10. Refunding a contribution to legal costs
• 6. Legal Aid Review Committee Appeals
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Lodging an appeal
  • 6.3. Preparing a report to the Legal Aid Review Committee
  • 6.4. Deadline for delivery of appeal documents to the Legal Aid Review Committee Secretariat
  • 6.5. Urgent matters
  • 6.6. Where the Legal Aid Review Committee has deferred making a decision
  • 6.7. Officer advising Legal Aid Review Committee
  • 6.8. Meetings-during and follow up
  • 6.9. Membership of Legal Aid Review Committees
• 7. Representation
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Determining requests for reassignment of criminal matters
  • 7.3. Criteria to be considered when assigning a matter to the Homeless Persons Legal Service Advocate
• 8. Types of Grants of Aid
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Guideline for emergency grants of aid
• 9. Grants to community legal centres
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Legal practitioner/client fees
• 10. Costs and Fees
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Risk of liability for adverse costs in federal courts and tribunals
  • 10.3. Written notice to other parties to proceedings about the effect of s47 of the Act
  • 10.4. Method of paying section 47 costs
• 11. Forum Test and Reciprocity Agreement
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Forum test guide
  • 11.3 The Reciprocity Agreement-principles of interpretation in Commonwealth family law
• 12. Terminating Legal Aid
  • 12.1 Where a legally aided person no longer satisfies the relevant Legal Aid NSW Policy
  • 12.2 Where a legally aided person no longer satisfies Legal Aid NSW Means Test
  • 12.3 Where a legally assisted person no longer satisfies the relevant merit test
  • 12.4 Where a legally aided person breaches a condition of the grant of legal aid
  • 12.5 Where a legally aided person engages in violent or threatening behaviour
  • 12.6 Where a legally aided person no longer wants the grant of aid
  • 12.7 Where a legally aided person dies
  • 12.8 Where a legally aided person suffers loss of capacity
  • 12.9 General breakdown of lawyer/client relationship
  • 12.10 Before terminating legal aid- notification requirements
  • 12.11 After legal aid is terminated- notification requirements
• 13. Unpaid Contributions Test
  • 13.1 What are exceptional circumstances?
• 14. Section 33 Payments
  • 14.1 What are exceptional circumstances?
  • 14.2 Paying the section 33 payment by instalments
  • 14.3 What payment methods are available?

 

Guidelines

2. Family law matters

• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. Urgent matters
• 2.3. Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) Service
• 2.4. Independent children's lawyer and child representatives
• 2.5. Material change in circumstances
• 2.6. Child support or maintenance and spouse maintenance matters
• 2.7. Allegations of domestic violence
• 2.8. Family law costs management
• 2.9. Briefing counsel
• 2.11. Disputes relating to preservation of property
• 2.12. Significant disadvantage
• 2.13. Care and Protection matters
• 2.14. Single expert reports
• 2.15. Special circumstances
• 2.16. Special disadvantage
• 2.17. Statutory and administrative financial assistance schemes by the Commonwealth Attorney-General - Administered by the Legal Aid Branch
• 2.18. Substantial issue
• 2.19. Significant financial benefit

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