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Free legal consultations result Republican action within the Mother’s Week

On the initiative of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus in all of the regional centers and in the capital of Belarus a traditional action on free legal advice for mothers with many children and mothers raising children with disabilities. More than two hundred citizens took the consultations.

Only in the Ministry of Justice within the framework of the action 38 mothers received counseling and legal assistance. Most often citizens asked for clarification on the following issues: housing legislation, including the improvement of housing conditions,the procedure for the use of funds under the family capital programme, execution of court decisions, recovery of alimony and social benefits, the rights of families raising a disabled child and the provision of legal assistance within the framework of international treaties, the performance of separate notary actions.

Traditionally, the action takes place in cooperation with the Belarusian The Republican Collegium of Advocates and the Belarusian Notary Public Room.