Death and bereavement

A to Z

• Apply for an exhumation licence
• Apply to settle in the UK if your partner dies
• Appoint the Public Trustee as executor of your estate
• Bereavement Allowance (previously Widow's Pension)
• Bereavement Payment
• Business Relief for Inheritance Tax
• Challenge a presumption of death claim
• Change a will after a death
• Change or cancel a presumption of death certificate
• Claim or refer an unclaimed estate
• Find a soldier's will
• Find a will or probate (England and Wales)
• Find and claim money in a court account
• Find bereavement services from your council
• Finding a person's will
• Funeral Payments
• Get a declaration of presumed death
• Get a licence for a burial at sea in England
• Guardian's Allowance
• Intestacy - who inherits if someone dies without a will?
• Making a will
• Pay your Inheritance Tax bill
• Payment to register a death abroad
• Register a death
• Register a stillbirth
• Tax on property, money and shares you inherit
• Telling DVLA about a bereavement
• Valuing the estate of someone who's died
• What to do after someone dies
• Widowed Parent's Allowance
• Wills, probate and inheritance
• Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a spouse

Detailed guidance

• Death registration disclosure

Births, deaths, marriages and care

• Certificates, register offices, changes of name or gender

  Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates

• Child Benefit

  Information about eligibility, claiming and when Child Benefit stops

• Death and bereavement

  Reporting a death, wills, probate and Inheritance Tax

• Having a child, parenting and adoption

  Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance

• Lasting power of attorney, being in care and your financial affairs

  Includes dealing with benefits, taxes and leaving care

• Marriage, civil partnership and divorce

  Includes register offices, decree absolutes and looking after children

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