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Death and bereavement
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- Apply for an exhumation licence
- Applying for probate
- Appoint the Public Trustee as executor of your estate
- Bereavement Allowance (previously Widow's Pension)
- Bereavement Payment
- Bereavement Support 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
- Dealing with the estate of someone who's died
- Find a soldier's will
- Find and claim money in a court account
- Find bereavement services from your council
- Get a declaration of presumed death
- Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
- Guardian's Allowance
- Inheritance Tax
- Intestacy - who inherits if someone dies without a will?
- Make a statutory will on behalf of someone else
- Making a will
- Pay your Inheritance Tax bill
- Register a death
- Register a stillbirth
- Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales)
- Stopping a probate application
- Support for child funeral costs (Children’s Funeral Fund for England)
- Tax on property, money and shares you inherit
- Telling DVLA after someone dies
- Update property records when someone dies
- Valuing the estate of someone who's died
- What to do after someone dies
- What to do when someone dies: step by step
- Widowed Parent's Allowance
- Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a spouse
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Births, deaths, marriages and care
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Certificates, register offices, changes of name or gender
Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates
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Child Benefit
Information about eligibility, claiming and when Child Benefit stops
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Death and bereavement
Reporting a death, wills, probate and Inheritance Tax
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Having a child, parenting and adoption
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
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Lasting power of attorney, being in care and your financial affairs
Includes dealing with benefits, taxes and leaving care
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Marriage, civil partnership and divorce
Includes getting married abroad, decree absolutes and looking after children
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