Legal Aid WA provides a wide range of services for family law and children’s matters. Services include:
- Legal representation by lawyers for children and young people in the Family Court and in the Children’s Court
- Legal representation by lawyers in the Family Court, in child protection proceedings in the Children’s Court, and in defended hearings for family violence restraining orders in the Magistrates’ Court
- Dispute resolution services within family law and child protection proceedings
- Assistance to both carers of children and those who have to pay child support
- Needing legal advice or representation with criminal charges
- Who have been arrested as a suspect by police
- Wanting help with an appeal against conviction or sentence
