Legal Aid is provided by the government to cover the cost of our family mediation service for families in dispute. Legal aid is available for family mediation cases that help families agree arrangements about: Finance and property, including what happens to the family home, child maintenance, and financial settlement if you are getting divorced. • Child arrangements, from a single issue you are not able to agree on, to arrangements that have completely broken down, and everything in between. • Any dispute following a family breakdown that may end up in court. • Legal Aid for mediation is means-tested, so you have to provide evidence of your current financial circumstances to prove you’re entitled to receive it. • If you are eligible, Legal Aid for mediation will cover all your individual mediation costs. It will also cover the costs of the initial appointment and first mediation meeting for the other person if they’re not eligible in their own right.