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GUIDELINES TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Steps

Part 1 - Forum Test
	GL 29 Forum and Reciprocity

Part 2 - Means Test
a.	Simplified Means Test
	GL Simplified Means Test
	Income Test
	Assets Test
b.	National Means Test
	i.	Income Test
		Schedule A - Benchmarks Income Test
		Schedule B - Benchmark Amounts Income Test
	ii.	Assets Test
		Schedule A - Benchmarks Assets Test
		Schedule B - Benchmark Amounts Assets Test
	iii.	Who Qualifies for Assistance ?
	iv.	General Discretion
	v.	Verification Requirements
	vi.	Schedule C - Definitions for National Means Test
c.	Initial Contribution
		See Part 6 - Contributions

Part 3 - Matter Type Guidelines
a.	Commonwealth Law
	i.	Commonwealth Priorities
		Schedule A of National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services
	ii.	Commonwealth Matter Type Guidelines
		General
		Commonwealth Family Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL 1 Priority for Urgent Matters
			GL 2 Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) Services
			GL 3 Independent Representation of Children
			GL 4 Parenting Orders
			GL 5 Child Maintenance and Child Support
			GL 6 Spousal Maintenance
			GL 7 Arrears of Spousal or Child Maintenance or Support
			GL 8 Paternity
			GL 9 Special Procedures Involving Children
			GL 10 Recovery. Location and Information Orders
			GL 11 Divorce and Nullity of Marriage
			GL 12 Property
			GL 14 Assistance After Final Court Orders
			GL 15 Appeals
			GL 16 Enforcement of Court Orders
			GL 17 Contempt of Court and Breach of Court Orders
			GL 18 International Child Abduction Matters
			GL 19 Family Law Costs Management
		Commonwealth Criminal Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL 1 General
		Commonwealth Civil Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL 1 General
			GL 2 Social Security and other Commonwealth Benefits Appeals
			GL 3 Migration Cases
			GL 4 Equal Opportunity and Discrimination Cases
			GL 5 War Veterans' Matters
			GL 6 Other Federal and High Court Proceedings
			GL 7 Proceeds of Crime
			GL 8 Extradition Proceedings
			GL 9 Appeals
b.	State Law
		State Family Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL Defacto Property Settlement
			GL Defacto Restraint Orders / Restraint Orders between Parents where Child/ren under 18
			GL 23 Child Protection Matters
		State Criminal Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL 3 Bail Applications
			GL 8 Committal Proceedings
			GL 14 Criminal Law
			GL 6 Youth Justice Act Matters
			GL Dietrich/Pirimona Type Cases
			GL 2 Appeals
		State Civil Law Matter Type Guidelines
			GL State Civil Law
			GL 17 Restraint Orders
			GL 20 Inquest
			GL Public Interest Cases

Part 4 - Merits Test
a.	Commonwealth Merits Test
b.	State Merits Test

Part 5 - Conditions
	GL Available Funds
	GL 18 Emergency Grants of Legal Aid
	GL 4 Change In Circumstances
	GL 5 Client's Obligation to Accept Legal Advice
	GL 36 Transfer of Legal Practitioner
	GL 21 Limitations on Grants of Aid
	GL 19 Extensions

Part 6 - Contributions
a.	GL 30 Contribution Guidelines
b.	Contributions Assessment
	i.	Simplified Contributions Assessment
		Table 1 Simplified Contributions on Income
		Table 2 Simplified Contributions on Assets
	ii.	Standard Contributions Assessment
		Table 1 Contributions on Income
		Table 2 Contributions on Assets
		Contributions Assessment Form
c.	Schedule 1 Contributions Benchmark Amounts

Part 7 - Costs Guidelines
	GL 1 Accounts
	GL 11 Costs
	GL 12 (State) Taxation
		- Taxation
		- Taxation of Costs
	GL 19 (Cwth) Commonwealth Costs Management
		GL 19 Family Law Costs Management


Part 8 - Fees
	Appendix A - Scale of Fees for Practitioners
	Appendix B - In Globo Fees for Grants of Aid

GUIDELINES TABLE OF CONTENTS