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

A to Z

• Apply to the Mental Health Tribunal
• Become an appointee for someone claiming benefits
• Carer's Allowance
• Claim and deal with Child Benefit for someone else
• Claiming and dealing with tax credits for someone else
• Contact the Court Funds Office
• Contact the Court of Protection
• 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 or deputy 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
• Object to the registration of a power of attorney
• Report a concern about an attorney or deputy
• Use or cancel an enduring power of attorney

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

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions