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Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
You can usually get permission to use someone else’s intellectual property…
To use an existing trade mark you should contact the current owner. Find…
Contact the owner of the patent to see if they’ll: license it to you sell…
You can’t copy or use copyright material without permission. For example,…
To use a registered design you must contact the current owner and either…
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
You can allow another person or an organisation to help manage your account or act on your behalf.
Claim or deal with Child Benefit for someone else - if your child has a baby, authorisation form TC689, appointees, voluntary organisations
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Deal with the Tax Credit office for someone else - authorisation, TC689 authorisation form, appointees, if your child has a baby
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling
Find out what rights and obligations you can transfer, if you can transfer or receive them and what to do after authorisation.
If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...
Child Benefit if your child lives with someone else - when you can claim, multiple claims, change who gets the benefit
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
When and how to pay tax if you get money from someone's pension pot after they die - including 'death in service' benefits
A trust is a way of managing assets (money, investments, land or buildings) for people - types of trust, how they are taxed, where to get help.
The process when a British national dies in the UAE, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
What Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is, how to work it out, current CGT rates and how to pay.
Authorise someone to deal with HMRC for you - how to appoint an agent, friend, relative or voluntary organisation
What to do if someone you know is having issues with their benefits: the ways you can manage their claim and how to call a helpline to ask for help.
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