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Our Legal Services
For more than 50 years, lawyers in the legal aid network have worked together to provide professional and caring legal services throughout Québec.
Discover our range of legal services, designed to meet your needs.
Family Law
Our family law lawyers can help and advise you in the resolution of judicial problems related to your family.
- Divorce
- Separation
- Child custody
- Access rights
- Child support
- Homologation Assistance Service (SAH)
- Service administratif de rajustement des pensions alimentaires pour enfants (child support recalculation service) (SARPA)
- Division of assets following separation or divorce
- Filiation
- International kidnapping
- Permission to travel
- Removal of parental authority
- Tutorship to an underage child
- Emancipation
To learn more about the services available and to check your eligibility, contact the legal aid office closest to you.
Criminal and Penal Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in criminal and penal law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services may be available if you are charged under, including but not limited to:
- The Criminal Code of Canada, for offences such as:
- theft, assault, uttering threats, sexual assault, fraud, murder, breach of conditions, unlawful confinement, dangerous driving, obstruction, extortion, forcible confinement, child pornography, and others
- The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, including simple possession, possession for the purpose of trafficking, trafficking, production, importation or exportation
- The Tobacco Tax Act, in certain cases
- An application for imprisonment under the Code of Penal Procedure, notably for unpaid fines
- Penal offences related to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Youth Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in youth law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in youth law may include matters related to:
- Youth Protection
- Young Offenders
- Adoption
- Education Law
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Immigration Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in immigration law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in immigration law may include matters related to:
- Refugee Claims
- Arrest, right to speak with a lawyer, and detention review hearings
- Proceedings before the Immigration Division regarding removal orders (criminality, misrepresentation, residency obligations, etc.)
- Applications for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds
- Loss of permanent resident status
- Loss of refugee status
- Appeals of removal orders before the Immigration Appeal Division
- Appeals before the Refugee Appeal Division following a refused refugee claim
- Loss of citizenship or any matter relating to Canadian citizenship
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Civil, administrative, and social Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in civil law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in civil law may include matters related to:
- Social Assistance (MTESS)
- Work-Related Accidents (CNESST and the Administrative Labour Tribunal – TAT)
- Automobile Insurance (SAAQ)
- Employment Insurance (Unemployment Insurance)
- Family Allowances
- Compensation for Victims of Crime (IVAC)
- Québec Pension Plan (Retraite Québec), including:
- Retirement Pension
- Survivor Benefits
- Disability Benefits
- Successions and Estates
- Québec Health Insurance Plan (RAMQ)
- Housing Tribunal (Tribunal administratif du logement)
- Disability Insurance
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
- Opposition to Seizure
- Consumer Protection
- Old Age Security Pension
- Surviving Spouse’s Pension
- Orphan’s Pension
- Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP)
- Civil Liability (Defence)
- Supplement for Persons with Disabilities
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Human rights and mental health Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in Human rights and mental health law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in immigration law may include matters related to:
- Protective Supervision Regime for Adults
- Applications for Care
- Consent to Care
- Confinement in a Health Facility
- Homologation of a Protection Mandate (Mandate in Case of Incapacity)
- Tutorship for Adults
- Mental Health Review Board (Administrative Tribunal of Québec – TAQ)
- Judicial Mental Health Support Program
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Housing Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in housing law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in housing law may include matters related to:
- Lease Termination
- Unsanitary Housing Conditions (mould, vermin infestation)
- Enforcement of Repairs or Maintenance Work
- Subsidized Housing
- Failure by the Landlord to Meet Legal Obligations
- Unreasonable Rent Increases
- Repossession of a Dwelling
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Bankruptcy Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in bankruptcy law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in bankruptcy law may include matters related to:
- Indebtedness
- Voluntary Deposit Program
- Bankruptcy
- Discharge from Bankruptcy
- Discharge of Student Loan Debts
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Carceral Law
Rely on our Legal Aid teams specializing in carceral law to guide you toward the assistance available to you.
Legal aid services in carceral law may include matters related to:
- Parole
- Transfers
- Sentence Calculation
- Disciplinary Tribunal Proceedings
- Medical and Health Care Services
- Unlawful Detention
To learn more about the services offered and to determine your eligibility, please contact the Legal Aid office closest to you.
Homologation Assistance Service (SAH)
The Homologation Assistance Service (SAH) is intended for parties residing in Québec who have reached an agreement regarding changes to:
- child custody, access rights, or parenting time;
- child support;
- spousal support;
- an existing judgment dealing with any of these matters.
The parties must choose either a staff lawyer from the legal aid network or a private practice lawyer to prepare the joint application to have their agreement homologated.
The parties must choose either a permanent lawyer from the Legal Aid network or a private practice lawyer to draft the joint application for homologation of their agreement.
The SAH is available to the general public, without any financial eligibility requirements for legal aid, at a total cost of $651, shared equally between the parties. Individuals eligible for free legal aid pay nothing, while those eligible under the contributory plan pay the lesser of their contribution calculated under the Regulation respecting legal aid and the cost of the SAH.
Certain documents are required when opening a file with the Probate Assistance Service (PASS).
• A completed Form H – Application for Probate Assistance.
• A copy of the judgment you wish to modify.
• A copy of the support determination form used to calculate child support.
• Individuals who may be financially eligible for free or contribution-based legal aid
must provide proof of employment and business income, as well as proof of income from property and a list of their assets. The eligibility thresholds for legal aid are
available under the « Legal Aid » tab, in the « Am I Financially Eligible? » section.
To learn more about all the services offered and to verify your eligibility, please contact the legal aid office closest to you.
SARPA
Service administratif de rajustement des pensions alimentaires pour enfants (SARPA)
The SARPA allows parents to request the recalculation of child support for a minor child when the amount has already been set by a court judgment.
An application may be submitted by one parent or by both parents jointly.
Eligibility criteria are established under the Act to promote access to justice by establishing the Administrative Child Support Recalculation Service and its implementing regulation.
For more information or to submit an application, please visit www.sarpaquebec.ca/
Services Outside of Quebec
A person residing in Québec may obtain legal services in another province under an agreement between the federal government, the provinces, and the territories.
The application must be made at the legal aid office closest to your place of residence. The office will forward the application to the province concerned in order to verify financial eligibility and service coverage under its legislation.
In criminal matters, a person seeking legal representation must apply directly to the legal aid organization in the province or territory where the charges are laid.
Individuals residing outside Québec may also be eligible for certain services.
To learn more about all the services offered and to verify your eligibility, please contact the legal aid office closest to you.