• Family

  Get advice on family, looking after people and when a relationship ends.

  • Living together, marriage and civil partnership
  • How to separate
  • Sorting out money
  • Making agreements about your children
  • If you were living together
  • Death and wills
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  • Looking after people
  • Education

• Ways to end your marriage

  Find out how to end your marriage. Divorce is the best, permanent way. But you might want a legal separation or annulment.

  • In:
  • Family
  • How to separate

• Transferring property for the benefit of children

  Court powers to make certain property orders if it's for the good of a couple's child or children if a marriage or civil partnership breaks down.

  • In:
  • Family
  • If you were living together

• Staying in your council home when someone dies

  Check if you can stay in your home when the person on the tenancy agreement dies. It will depend on your relationship with the person and what tenancy type they had.

  • In:
  • Housing
  • Renting from the council or a housing association

• Living together and civil partnership - legal differences

  Information for same-sex and opposite-sex couples on how the law treats civil partnerships and cohabiting couples, including financial matters, adoption, housing and inheritance.

  • In:
  • Family
  • Living together, marriage and civil partnership

• Bringing family to live in the UK if you're from the EU

  Find out if your family can come and live in the UK. Check if they need to get a family permit or pre-settled or settled status first.

  • In:
  • Immigration

• Domestic violence and abuse - getting help

  Organisations which give information and advice all aspects of domestic violence and abuse, rape and sexual assault.

  • In:
  • Family
  • Gender violence

• Check what child maintenance arrangement is right for you

  Find out about the different ways to arrange child maintenance and how to choose the best one for you.

  • In:
  • Family
  • Children and young people
  • Child maintenance

• Check if you can get child tax credits

  Check who can get child tax credits, a benefit that can help if you're responsible for children and have a low income.

  • In:
  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Working and child tax credits

• Asking for adjustments to help with your disability

  Find out what disability changes your landlord has to make and how to ask for them.

  • In:
  • Housing
  • Discrimination in housing

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