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  • Apply for help with the cost of prison visits, including travel to the prison, accommodation, meals.

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

  • When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to respond, agree or disagree, start your own proceedings, court hearing, apply for a decree absolute.

  • DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK

  • 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. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.

  • Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office

  • The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.

  • Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance

  • What to do if you have an electronic tag (including curfew tags, location tags and alcohol tags) and how to contact the Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS).

  • How to contact the Court Funds Office - email, phone, address, complaints

  • How to volunteer as a magistrate, who can and cannot apply, the application form, and what magistrates do in court.

  • The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.

  • You have the right to speak for yourself in court without a solicitor or legal professional - where to get help with papers and procedures

  • When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.

  • If you’re being stalked, contact the police or get advice from organisations including the National Stalking helpline.

  • The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old. Children are treated differently from adults, are dealt with by youth courts and sent to special secure centres for young people.

  • How to challenge a decision by a magistrates' court. Including how to get a fine reviewed, if you did not know about your case, how to appeal to the Crown Court.

  • If you've been the victim of a crime, you have the right to privacy, to make a personal statement and to contact the police and be kept informed about the investigation.

  • Probation is when you serve a court sentence in the community, and can include unpaid work or being supervised after coming out of prison

  • What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance