Key legal question
Whether the refusal of free legal aid in the divorce proceedings violated Art. 29(3) BV because the applicant's wage garnishment left him without means to pay litigation costs.
Extracted holding
Yes. Once monthly wages were garnished down to the subsistence minimum, the applicant had no available means for court and lawyer fees; the debt type behind the garnishment was irrelevant.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the amount already garnished from salary must be treated as removing available resources, and that litigation costs cannot be added to the subsistence minimum in enforcement proceedings. The lower court's contrary approach was incompatible with debt-enforcement principles.