• "I have panic attacks when I see my ex": fighting for custody after legal aid cuts

    "I have panic attacks when I see my ex": fighting for custody after legal aid cuts
    Your relationship has broken down, you’re battling for your children – now you have to stand up without a lawyer. Welcome to life in the wake of recent cuts to legal aidRob Painter and his partner Emma had been going through a rough patch when, one day in March, Emma took the children to visit her family at the other end of the country – and didn’t come back. “We’d been together six years,” says Painter, 33. “Emma was pregnant when I met her, and w

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