This section offers advice about how to access legal help for yourself and your children. Women's Refuge can help you get legal advice or help through it's advocacy service.
Click on the menu on the left to show information about:
- Police
- Protection Orders
- Care of children
- Child Youth and Family
- Courts
- Lawyers and Legal Aid
You can also get more detailed legal information from the Women's Refuge book Fresh Start: A Practical Guide for Women Wanting To Be Free From Abuse. The resource has chapters on understanding and surviving family violence as well information on:
- Dealing with the Police
- Seeing a lawyer
- Protection Orders
- Going to Court
- What happens to children when the relationship ends
- ACC
- Legally ending a marriage, defacto relationship or civil union
- Dividing relationship property
- Useful legal terms
The book is available from your local Refuge or you can obtain a copy by contacting the Women's Refuge National Office.