Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the appeal against the refusal of legal aid for a maintenance-modification request was still live.
Decisione estratta
The appeal was moot because the peace judge lacked competence to decide the maintenance-modification request and its related legal-aid request.
Motivazione estratta
The filing post-dated the approved maintenance agreement and therefore had to be treated as a request to modify maintenance. Under the applicable rules, modification of an alimony agreement falls within the competence of the president of the district court, not the justice of the peace, whose role is limited to ratifying uncontested maintenance agreements. Since the lower court had no competence on that point, the appeal on legal aid for that part became without object.