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Guidance for HMPPS staff on the use of separation centres.
Public information materials for organisations that support separating families, including the mediation sector and advice organisations.
The Separation Agreement Joint Committee adopted a decision to agree its rules of procedure on 18 December 2020.
Complete one of these forms to support your application to separate or legally end your marriage or civil partnership.
Use this for to answer an application to end your marriage or civil partnership, or for a judicial separation.
What farmers and land managers must know about slurry separators, storing and applying separated materials.
Use this form if you wish to defend a divorce, dissolution, (judicial) separation or nullity petition or application issued by your spouse or civil partner.
Information about visitors and their use of the Sorting Out Separation website from its launch in December 2012 to December 2015.
This report presents findings of a process study of the set up and early implementation of two Separation Centres (SCs) within the high security prison estate in England and Wales.
Guidance for Ofsted inspectors when they find separation by sex on an inspection.
More than 27,000 separating families have saved money, protected their children and avoided lengthy, combative courtroom battles, thanks to a £23.6 million government scheme.
Ask the court to proceed with your divorce, dissolution, nullity or (judicial) separation proceedings even though the respondent could not be served with the papers.
Check you can get a divorce, agree or disagree with a divorce application, what to do if your husband or wife lacks mental capacity.
Use this form to apply to a court to end your marriage or civil partnership.
Use this form to ask the court to proceed with your divorce, dissolution, nullity of judicial separation proceedings without the papers being served on the other party.
Apply for a certificate that says the court doesn’t see any reason why you can’t divorce or separate.
Guidance on children and the family courts for separated parents.
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