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Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can help me with this. It's more out of curiosity than anything else. My ex-wife had applied to the scottish legal aid board on 3 counts, aliment, contact and divorce on the grounds of 2 years separation. They granted legal aid for the divorce but not for the aliment, (she wants more money over and above the money recommended by the CSA to cover childcare costs she is incurring when she has the kids under her care) and contact, (she wants to reduce my contact drastically from an established amount over the last 2 years; there are no issues that have arisen recently that would give her any grounds for this that I can think of). Why would legal aid be granted on one item but not the other 2? Is it because legal aid is in general not granted for such things or is it because her reasons submitted to the legal aid board didn't stack up?
regards
Douglas
Hi Douglas
That's a new one on me - because it's in Scotland, it may be worth having a quick word with the Scottish Children's Law Centre to see if they can shed any light on this - http://www.sclc.org.uk
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