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How to divorce or end a civil partnership if your partner’s gone missing, you do not know their whereabouts or they are presumed dead
Get a declaration of presumed death if a person has been missing for at least 7 years or you think they've died - form N208, certificate of presumed death, appeal, complain
You can make a claim for a ‘declaration of presumed death’ from the High…
Download and fill in a claim form (N208) with details about: yourself -…
You must advertise your application in a newspaper local to the missing…
You’ll have to attend a hearing about your claim with a High Court judge -…
The Missing Children and Adults strategy focuses on vulnerable people who go missing within England and Wales.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in June 2015.
Request for statistics on how many missing accounts have gone astray internally over the past 6 years.
The zero response to an FOI requesting details of people missing and presumed murdered from 1980 onwards being dealt with by the CNC
On the Inernational Day of the Disappeared, Ambassadors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia and Chargé d’Affaires in Croatia published a joint message
New law will allow families to take over the affairs of missing loved ones.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland today extended her sympathy following confirmation that the human remains found recently at Coghalstown, Co. Meath
Birmingham travel agent has been jailed and banned from running companies after he failed to explain the whereabouts of thousands of pounds of missing funds.
24-hour helpline and a one-stop shop website for missing people and their families are just two initiatives that have been launched.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
James Brokenshire unveiled strategy for ensuring missing people and their families are provided with better protection and support.
A new law will help families deal with the fall out of a loved one going missing – in plans announced by Justice Minister Lord Faulks QC.
Families of missing people will have new rights following law changes taking effect from today, 1 October 2014.
HMS Echo has joined HMS Tireless in standing down from the search for the signal from the black box of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
Families of missing people will be given extra help when a loved one goes missing, under proposals announced by Lord Faulks QC today.
New school attendance statistics show the number of persistent absentees is down by nearly 200,000 since 2010.
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