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How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order
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
Use form CA9176 to apply for Class 3 National Insurance credits if you've provided care for a child under 12 from 6 April 2011.
Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
How to work out and apply the residence nil rate band (RNRB) for Inheritance Tax in different circumstances.
Review of research evidence and statistics on grandparents who provide childcare.
Check if a home is eligible for extra tax-free residence allowance if it is left to children, grandchildren or other direct descendants.
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is paid when a person's estate is worth more than £325,000 when they die - exemptions, passing on property. Sometimes known as death duties.
How children's savings accounts are taxed, and the £100 limit on savings given by parents
Find out who is entitled to a share of someone’s property, possessions and money if they die without making a will
Find out if you are an entitled relative and how to claim an estate from the Bona Vacantia division.
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