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You will incur various costs as part of court proceedings. You must first use your income and, if reasonable, your assets.
If you need financial help with this, you can apply for legal aid. This also applies if you can only bear part of the costs of court proceedings or only in instalments. In family matters and in matters of voluntary jurisdiction, legal aid is known as procedural cost aid.
You will receive legal aid without paying in instalments if you have less than 20 euros per month at your disposal after deducting the following expenses and allowances:
Expenses:
Allowances:
If your income to be used is EUR 20 or more, the court can order a monthly instalment payment or refuse legal aid. An exact calculation is only possible in each individual case.
Legal aid covers the court costs. It only covers the costs of your own lawyer if the court has appointed a lawyer.
Please note: Legal aid does not cover your opponent's costs, for example their lawyer's fees. If you lose the legal dispute, you will have to reimburse these costs. Exceptions only apply in labour court disputes and in some family matters and matters of voluntary jurisdiction.
the court in which the proceedings or enforcement is being conducted
Please note: Legal aid will not be granted if the following persons have to pay the costs due to statutory maintenance obligations:
You can submit your application for legal aid in writing or on the record at the court registry. At the same time, you must enclose the completed form "Declaration of personal and financial circumstances for legal aid" with your application. You can also complete the form step by step and with additional explanations using a new online service from the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, after which you can decide whether you want to send the completed form digitally or print it out and submit it on paper.
In the application, you must describe the dispute in detail and in full. You should also state any evidence you have.
If you need help with the application, you can contact the court or a lawyer's office. The application can also be submitted by a lawyer.
The competent office will check
It will then make a decision, which you will receive in writing.
The decision contains information on
Please notethe competent authority regularly checks whether the conditions for legal aid are still met. If there is a significant change in your personal or financial circumstances, the court can redefine the scope or revoke the authorisation.
Cautionfalse statements can lead to the competent authority cancelling the authorisation decision. The same applies if you are more than three months in arrears with an instalment payment or fail to submit the required documents after being requested to do so.
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The competent authority will only grant you legal aid for the respective court instance, for example the proceedings before the local court.
For subsequent proceedings, for example before the regional court, you must apply for legal aid again. This also applies to
The legal clerks at the Legal Applications Office or the Registry will help you free of charge with the formulation of applications or declarations intended for submission to the competent court. This also applies to questions regarding the application for the appointment of a lawyer. As far as possible, the Rechtspfleger at the Rechtsantragstelle will advise you themselves or refer you to the relevant competent office.
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Machine generated, based on the German release by: Justizministerium Baden-Württemberg, 09.01.2026
