The legal protection insurance in the field of private life aims to provide coverage for legal costs that the insured is faced with in situations from their private life. By combining the coverage of the legal expenses according to different legal areas, it is attempted that the legal expenses insurance coverage meets the needs of the insured. It is particularly suitable for providing the so-called family coverage of legal protection for the insured and his family members. After introduction, the paper deals with the forms of legal protection insurance in the field of private life and defines the insured and the co-insured persons in more detail. Also, the insurance risk coverage according to individual legal areas is presented (damage compensation, labour relations, criminal and misdemeanour law, family and inheritance law, property and obligation law regarding movables, traffic legal protection). At the end, the individual exclusions from legal protection insurance coverage in the field of private life are presented.