Questão jurídica principal
Whether legal aid is available for a debtor's voluntary bankruptcy petition when the debtor has no realizable assets and the procedure would be suspended immediately.
Decisão extraída
Legal aid must be refused because the petition is doomed to fail if the estate lacks assets and liquidation would be suspended at once.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 29(3) Cst. covers bankruptcy proceedings, but only if the request has prospects of success. Under Art. 191 LP, a voluntary bankruptcy presupposes some assets to distribute; if none exist, Art. 230(1) LP requires immediate suspension, so the filing lacks a protected interest and is futile.