Legal aid nsw:
family law & children’s law.

Coffs Law Co. chooses to provide quality legal services via minimal funding from Legal Aid NSW as a service to the community.  This does not mean Coffs Law Co. will provide our Legal Aid NSW clients with a lesser service, rather the assistance provides the essential legal services required to reasonably resolve your legal matter.

Legal Aid NSW have approved all solicitors working at Coffs Law Co. to provide family law services, where eligible, to clients involved in parenting disputes and property disputes subject to Legal Aid NSW policies.

At your initial appointment, Coffs Law Co. will work out if you qualify for funding from Legal Aid NSW to address your family law disputes.  To assist us with that assessment we require the following documentation at your initial appointment or directly from Legal Aid NSW.

• Your must recent Centrelink Income Statement and (if you are working) your three most recent payslips; AND
• Your three most recent months of bank statements for all your savings accounts.

The above documentation is required to process any application for Legal Aid NSW as it is means tested.  This means Legal Aid NSW will not provide funding to people who, in Legal Aid NSW’s opinion, can afford to engage a lawyer privately.  Essentially if you earn too much money or have too much money – the tax payer is not going to pick up your legal bill.  Even if you are granted funding by Legal Aid NSW, you are required in most circumstances, to make a financial contribution to your legal fees based on your individual financial situation.

What family law matters
will legal aid nsw fund?

Legal Aid NSW does fund various family law matters, and below is a brief description of what matters they may fund, please note this list is not exhaustive and more information is available from Coffs Law Co at your first appointment.

Parenting Disputes: Legal Aid NSW will always consider funding a parent to participate in mediation before it will consider giving aid to go to Court.  If you meet the means test, and you have a genuine dispute with the other parent regarding parenting of your children, you are likely to be successful in obtaining funding for mediation.