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Documents to bring to your first interview

 

Before we can act for you, we are required to see evidence of your name and address.

Please bring with you

EITHER:

  • A current photo card driving licence showing your full name and current address,

OR:

ONE of these documents to prove your personal identity:
  • Valid passport showing your current full name
  • Valid non photo card driving licence
  • Benefits book
  • Firearm or shotgun certificate
  • H M Forces identity card
  • Other form of photographic identity card

AND:

ONE of these documents to prove your address (must be dated within the last month):
  • Benefits book
  • Gas bill
  • Electricity bill
  • Telephone bill
  • Bank /Building Society / Post Office or credit card statement
  • Coucil Tax demand
  • Building Society passbook
  • Rent book / card
  • Tenancy agreement
  • House Insurance certificate
  • Motor Insurance certificate

 

It is important that you bring the these documents to your first appointment.

 

If you do not, we cannot act for you until you do.

 

Funding for family advice

Getting civil legal aid is dependent on a person and their case meeting a means and merits test. If these criteria are met, funding can be available for family problems including:

  • divorce, separation and civil partnership dissolution
  • child contact and residence
  • domestic violence court orders
  • care proceedings
  • family mediation
  • child abduction.

If you think you may be eligible to receive public funding, you do not need to make an application yourself - we do this for you, but we will need to ask you to bring supporting documentation. To see what you need to bring, please click on the following link, Legal Aid

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