Marriage, civil partnership and divorce

• Arrange child maintenance: the Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency

  Child maintenance - how to work it out, how the Child Support Agency and Child Maintenance Service can help, complaints, appeals

• When child maintenance payments stop

  Child maintenance payments usually stop when the child reaches 16 - but there are situations in which they'll stop sooner

• Arranging child maintenance yourself

  How to arrange child maintenance yourself without using the Child Support Agency or Child Maintenance Service - family-based arrangements, court orders

• Contact the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency (CSA)

  Contact the Child Support Agency (CSA) or Child Maintenance Service (CMS) about child maintenance or making deductions from employees' pay

• Looking after children if you divorce or separate

  How to make arrangements for your children if you divorce or separate, mediation and how to apply for a court order if you can't agree

• Sure Start Maternity Grant

  Sure Start Maternity Grant - a £500 payment to help with the costs of a new baby, eligibility, applying, claim form SF100

• Childcare vouchers: better off calculator

  Use this calculator to work out if you're better off getting childcare vouchers from your employer or claiming tax credits

• Childcare and tax credits

  Tax credits for childcare costs while you work - eligibility, how much you get, childcare vouchers and working out your costs

• Childcare out of school hours

  Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders

• Get a divorce

  The steps you'll need to go through to divorce your husband or wife - the grounds you can use to get a divorce, how to file a divorce petition, apply for a decree nisi and get a decree absolute

• Money and property when a relationship ends

  How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation

• Marriages and civil partnerships in the UK

  How to get married or enter a civil partnership in England and Wales, giving notice of marriage at a register office, paying fees

• Annul a marriage

  How you can have a marriage annulled, the reasons you can give for annulling a marriage and the forms you will need to apply for an annulment

• Change your name (by deed poll)

  Deed polls are used to officially recognise a change of name - get one through a specialist agency, a solicitor or by applying to the Royal Courts of Justice

• Child maintenance calculator

  Work out the amount of child maintenance if you’re arranging it yourselves, or to get an idea of the statutory amounts from the Child Support Agency or Child Maintenance Service

• Child maintenance if one parent lives abroad

  What to do if you need to get child maintenance from an ex-partner who lives abroad

• Childcare Grant

  Childcare Grants for full-time students in higher education - grants, CCG1, CCG2 forms, how to apply, eligibility

• Contact Sure Start

  Sure Start Children's Centres provide advice and support for parents and carers, from pregnancy to when a child goes to primary school

• Contact with your grandchild if their parents divorce or separate

  How to get contact with your grandchildren if their parents divorce or separate and they won't let you see them, including how to apply for a court order to get access to the children

• Divorce a missing husband or wife

  How to divorce your husband or wife if they've gone missing, you don't know their whereabouts or they are presumed dead

• End a civil partnership

  How to dissolve a civil partnership, including the grounds for ending the partnership, how to file a petition, and how to get a final order

• Find a Sure Start Children's Centre

  Search for Sure Start Children's Centres near to your home to find out about daycare and parenting advice

• Forced marriage

  What to do if you or someone you know is being forced into getting married, how you can try to stop the marriage from taking place, and what to do if you want to leave a forced marriage

• Get a copy of a decree absolute or final order

  How to order a copy of a decree absolute or a final order if you want to remarry or prove that you have divorced your former husband or wife or ended a civil partnership.

• Get a legal separation

  How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to live apart from your partner without divorcing them.

• Getting married abroad

  Requirements, paperwork and processes for weddings and civil partnerships overseas - registration, restrictions, fees

• How child maintenance is worked out

  Use the child maintenance calculator to work out how much child maintenance to pay - or see the rates the Child Support Agency and Child Maintenance Service use if you're arranging child maintenance

• Order a commemorative marriage certificate

  Order a commemorative marriage certificate for a gift or keepsake to mark a silver, ruby, golden or diamond wedding anniversary

• Payment for certificates to get married abroad

  Pay for documents you need to get married abroad from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

• Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (REMO) Unit

  The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (REMO) unit deals with international child maintenance agreements in England and Wales

• The law on leaving your child home alone

  The law doesn't say an age when you can leave a child on their own, but it's an offence to leave a child alone if it places them at risk.

• What happens if a child under 10 breaks the law?

  Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care

• What happens to me if my child gets in trouble with the police

  Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders