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Lasting power of attorney, being in care and your financial affairs
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- Apply for a one-off decision from the Court of Protection
- Apply to the Mental Health Tribunal
- Become an appointee for someone claiming benefits
- Carer's Allowance
- Claim a deputyship fee refund
- Claim and deal with Child Benefit for someone else
- Claiming and dealing with tax credits for someone else
- Contact the Court Funds Office
- Deputies: make decisions for someone who lacks capacity
- Deputies: manage a Court Funds Office account
- Enduring power of attorney: acting as an attorney
- Find out if someone has an attorney, deputy or guardian acting for them
- Get court funds money when you recover mental capacity
- Get your court funds money when you turn 18
- Lasting power of attorney: acting as an attorney
- Leaving foster or local authority care
- Make an urgent or emergency application to the Court of Protection
- Make decisions on behalf of someone
- Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney
- Manage a missing person's finances and property
- Object to the registration of a power of attorney
- Report a concern about an attorney, deputy or guardian
- Use or cancel an enduring power of attorney
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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