For information on how to get an intervention order and your legal rights contact:
- Victoria Legal Aid: free legal information phone line: Phone 1300 792 387, Monday to Friday from 8.45 am to 5.15 pm. Legal Aid also provides help in some community languages.
- WEstjustice: a western-suburbs based service which can help with advice on debt, employment law, family law and family violence, financial counselling and tenancy issues.
See below for Victoria Legal Aid’s free booklets – in community languages as well as English – on getting an intervention order.
- Magistrates’ Court information: If you are going to the Magistrates’ Court, learn more about how the court system works. and how to get help. The Court also has useful information about the family violence intervention order process.
- Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria Find our more about getting help and support if you are Indigenous.