I know, but all the same the presence of lawyers are accepted by the court de facto. so de facto litigation expenses should be claimed so that wife can engage as good a lawyer as husband has engased.
Coming to the need of the lawyers in the family court, it would remain as long as legal literacy and how to present one's case has not reached masses. When people know how to handle the legal cases, what the act says would be implemented: the presence of the lawyers would be dispensed with. Till then eveyone would remain accopnied by an advocated excepting a few persons who can present their case confidently.