Rejected petition Reintruduce legal aid for families within the family Courts

Cuts in legal aid are creating chaos in the family Court who warn that the resulting delays are having a serious impact on the children custody of their children now mostly have to represent themselves in court, and this causes lengthy delays in determining the best outcome for the children,

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Myself had to go to court to gain access to my daughter without legal aid. This has cost myself a fortune in legal fees. Like many families father's are missing out on seeing there children and this I find is unacceptable, it has a significant impact on our children as both sets of parents should be able to see there sons/daughters. No children in this country should have not go though not spending time with both sets of parents. But people who have committed a criminal offence get legal aid

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Date submitted 28 July 2016
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