If you qualify for legal aid, you can also get free advice from a specialist legal adviser about benefits and tax credits, debt, education, employment and housing. You can also find a local legal adviser or solicitor.

Click www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk to find out more.

Resolution
The association of specialist family solicitors
phone: 01689 820272
website: www.resolution.org.uk

Law Society of England and Wales
phone: 020 7242 1222
website: www.lawsociety.org.uk

The Court Service website
For copies of forms and leaflets relating to divorce
website: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk

Cafcass
The organisation that looks after children’s interests in family court proceedings. Its website has useful leaflets for couples with children.
phone: 0844 353 3350
website: www.cafcass.gov.uk

National Association of Child Contact Centres
phone: 0845 4500 280
website: www.naccc.org.uk

Relate
phone: 0300 100 1234
website: www.relate.org.uk
You can find local branches of Relate in the phone book.

Child Support Agency (CSA)
phone: 0845 7133 133
website: www.csa.gov.uk

Child Maintenance Options (CMO)
phone: 0800 988 0988
website: www.cmoptions.org

Family Mediation Helpline
phone: 0845 60 26 627
website: www.familymediationhelpline.co.uk

Reunite
advice line: 0116 2556 234
website: www.reunite.org

International Child Abduction and Contact Unit
phone: 020 7911 7127
website: www.officialsolicitor.gov.uk/os/icacu.htm

Freephone 24-hour National Domestic Violence Helpline
Run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge
phone: 0808 2000 247
website: www.womensaid.org.uk

Wales Domestic Abuse Helpline
phone: 0808 80 10 800
8am to 2pm and 8pm to 2am
website: www.wdah.org

Domestic violence
You can download a copy of the government leaflet ‘Domestic Violence – Financial control, emotional abuse’ from www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/dv/dv08b.htm

The Community Legal Service
The Community Legal Service has been set up to help you find the right legal information and advice to solve your problems.

You can get help through a national network of organisations including Citizens Advice Bureaux, Law Centres, many independent advice centres and thousands of high street solicitors. All of these services meet quality standards set by the Legal Services Commission, look for the Community Legal Service logo:

Community Legal Service logo

Many of the organisations offer some or all of their services for free. If you cannot afford to pay for advice you may be eligible for financial support through the Community Legal Service Fund (Legal Aid). You can order leaflets about funding from the LSC Leaflet line on 0845 3000 343. You can also use a Legal Aid eligibility calculator on the website: www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk.

You can use the directory on the Community Legal Advice website to .

The Legal Services Commission (LSC)
The Community Legal Service and the Community Legal Service Fund are managed by the Legal Services Commission. To find out more about us visit our website at www.legalservices.gov.uk or find the details for your local Legal Services Commission office in the phone book.

12. About this leaflet

This leaflet is published by the Legal Services Commission (LSC). It was written in association with Imogen Clout, a solicitor and mediator specialising in family law.

Leaflet version: May 2009