Services

When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to respond, agree or disagree, start your own proceedings, court hearing, apply for a decree absolute.

Apply for help with the cost of prison visits, including travel to the prison, accommodation, meals.

How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.

The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.

What to do if you have an electronic tag (including curfew tags, location tags and alcohol tags) and how to contact the Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS).

DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK

How you can have a marriage annulled, the reasons you can give for annulling a marriage and the forms you will need to apply for an annulment. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.

Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office

Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance

How to contact the Court Funds Office - email, phone, address, complaints

The steps you can take to tackle an intruder or burglar in your own home - and what force you can use to defend yourself

If you've been the victim of a crime, you have the right to privacy, to make a personal statement and to contact the police and be kept informed about the investigation.

The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old. Children are treated differently from adults, are dealt with by youth courts and sent to special secure centres for young people.

When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.

If you’re being stalked, contact the police or get advice from organisations including the National Stalking helpline.

How to volunteer as a magistrate, who can and cannot apply, the application form, and what magistrates do in court.

The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.

You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.

How to challenge a decision by a magistrates' court. Including how to get a fine reviewed, if you did not know about your case, how to appeal to the Crown Court.

What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance