Legal Aid Victoria recently invited feedback on proposed changes to it’s Family law eligibility guidelines.

Legal Aid’s summary of the proposed changes is:
•    more funding for independent children’s lawyers to assist judicial officers and  protect the rights and interests of  some of the most vulnerable children in our community  – those whose parents are in dispute about their living arrangements in the Family Law Courts
•    more funding for early intervention services, including RDM and early negotiations, for both children’s and some property matters, to provide early resolution of disputes and to relieve  parents and their children of the burden of undergoing the sometimes lengthy, always traumatic and potentially damaging experience of protracted legal proceedings (more…)