Legal Help

Women and family law / Women's Legal Services N.S.W

Neighbours and the law / Nadine Behan

The Family Law Handbook / Maree Livermore

Dealing with debt: a legal guide to personal debt in N.S.W / Christina Prina and Macarthur Legal Centre

Speaking for Myself: planning for later life decision-making / Legal Aid N.S.W

Just a piece of paper? : Making your AVO work for you / Maree Livermore and the Southern Women's Group Inc.

The law handbook : your practical guide to the law in New South Wales

Fined out: a practical guide for people having problems with fines / Andrew Taylor

Rest Assured : a legal guide to wills, estates, planning ahead & funerals in NSW / Rosemary Long & Trudy Coffey

How to run your own court case : a practical guide to representing yourself in Australian courts and tribunals (non-criminal cases) / Nadine Behan

Ask Izzy is a website that connects people in need with housing, a meal, money help, family violence support, counselling and much more. It is free and anonymous, with thousands of services listed across Australia. And if you’re on the Telstra or Vodafone mobile networks, you can access Ask Izzy on your phone even if you don’t have credit or access to Wi-Fi.

Go to Ask Izzy

Community legal centres give free legal help and other support to people in need. There are 42 community legal centres across New South Wales. Community legal centres help thousands of people every single day with a whole range of issues – housing, fines, family matters, domestic and family violence, and more.

Go to Community Legal Centres NSW

Legal Aid NSW is a statewide organisation providing legal services to socially and economically disadvantaged people across NSW. They deliver legal services in most areas of criminal, family and civil law. 

Go to Legal Aid NSW

The NSW legislation website is the primary source for NSW legislation. You can access official versions of State laws in NSW.

Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre is a community legal centre based in Nowra that services the South Coast and Southern Tablelands. They offer free legal advice and assistance, community legal education, and conduct law reform. 

Go to Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre

The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.

Go to the Federal Register of Legislation

The Willow website provides easy online access to simplified legal information for women escaping violence or in crisis, women with low literacy and women with limited digital capability. The site loads quickly and easily on mobile phones and other portable devices, even with poor 3G connections in regional or rural areas

Go to Willow