Sometimes the provision of professional pro bono legal assistance is not just a fad, but lawyers’ moral duty. The case of Martha Popovych who was the heroine of Inter Channel’s TV-program “Stosuyetsya Kozhnoho”(Concerns Everyone) is just that kind of a case.

Managing Partner of AGA Partners Law Firm Aminat Suleymanova has successfully defended Martha Popovich’s interests in Kulikovskiy District Court. The court has completely satisfied mother’s claim by ruling that two-year-old Masha’s place of residence should be with her mother, and ordered to exercise the immediate removal of the child from the father’s custody.

Two months earlier, Aminat Suleymanova was invited to participate in the TV-program as an independent expert on family matters.

27-year-old Martha Popovich had been physically abused by her common-law husband and forced to flee, leaving her two-year-old daughter Masha with her father. From then onwards Martha was prevented from seeing her daughter.

The father ignored the conclusion of the guardianship authority that ruled that the child should live with the mother. Aminat Suleymanova, as a recognized expert in the field of family law, decided to walk the walk and help Martha return her 2-year-old daughter, as well as to protect her rights in the court.

The court has accepted the lawyer’s arguments that the child’s further residence with the father endangers the girl’s health and moral education, and not just ruled that the girl should reside with her mother, but also ordered to immediately remove the child from the father’s custody. Decisions to remove the child from custody are quite uncommon in the judicial practice, as they require powerful arguments.

We should not forget the basics of the legal profession: aequum et bonum est lex legum - what is just and right is the law of laws.