family problem - legal advice

keep anon for personal reasons.

my aunt has been married to her husband for 10 years. she has two kids ages 9 and 3. she lives with her in-laws, as well as her brother in-law and sister in-law.

she has been a victim of domestic violence (emotionally), so she has been taking a off-the-shelf medicine (anadol and paracetemol) because of the stress. the family had recently experienced a few problems (tensions and regular family problems), which were all blamed on my aunt. then her husband turned on her and blamed all the problems on her, which caused her to lock herself in the bathroom and try to commit suicide. she took 34 paracetemol tablets (which cannot kill you, but the hospital still decided that it was an atempt to commit suicide - which is true).

she has been admitted into hospital and should be fine but is really worried (and she cannot stop crying) at the possibility of not geting to see her kids if she decided to divorce her husband - so she is actually considering going back to him

her husband will claim that my aunt is unstable, crazy and an unfit mother - which she is not, she only took the tablets because of the stress and she only tried to commit suicide because she was shocked by the fact that her husband turned on her.

the kids are with their father, however my aunt will be discharged from hospital tomorow and will be living at her parents house for the time being, therefore she would like to bring the kids to her parents' house - how would this be done (i don't think the father is going to let them go!)

and can anyone confirm that she will get her children if she decided to divore this man. by this i mean the children will be with her on weekdays at least.

she asked me to get some quick advice, so please someone help me.

how will her case to see her children be in court be. if you know any similar cases to this, please state them. i don't knwo much about the law so please explain as much as you can and do not hesistate to ask any further questions.

thank you

You might not get any professional advice although they are a couple of Lawyers and Baristers that use the Law forum so maybe you should post there but you won't be able to go anon.

Also, im sure you could get some free legal advice from a couple of law firms or something

i do know what you mean, but its sunday tomorow so all of them are probably going to be closed. i'm just looking for some quick advice you see. but i will tell her to go down to the lawyers.

they will allow the kids to see the parent as long as the kids themselves wish too.

I am saying that if you post in the Law forum someone might be able give you some advice but you wouldn't be able to post anon so that's a bit of a problem.

You should get your mum to go to the Citizens Advice Bureau but they might not be able to give legal advice as it depends on the type of advisors have they there. If they do have legal advisors then they will give your mum some advice.

What do you mean they wont be able to give legal advice ? Do you know what the C.A.B does right ?