Where to get legal advice
Your Cafcass Family Court Adviser does not and cannot provide you with legal advice.
However, you may find the following organisations can provide you with legal advice:
- Advice Now – an independent, not-for-profit website run by the charity ‘Law for Life’
- Coram Children’s Legal Centre – advice on child and family law
- Child Law Advice – provided by Coram Children’s Legal Centre, advice for Litigants in person
- Children’s Rights Alliance – human rights for children
- Child Rights Information Network – advice on children’s rights
- Family Court: attending a full hearing – video from HMCTS
- Family Court without a lawyer – video 1 of 3 – series of videos from family barrister and mediator Lucy Reed
- Family Court without a lawyer – video 2 of 3
- Family Court without a lawyer – video 3 of 3
- How to represent yourself in family court in England and Wales – video from Advice Now
- International abduction
- Judiciary handbook for Litigants in person
- The Law Society – advice on the law and help with obtaining a solicitor
- Legal Services Commission – information on legal matters and help with legal costs
- Resolution – advice on finding a solicitor
- Support Through Court – free, independent assistance to people facing proceedings without legal representation
- Taking a case to court without legal advice – advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau