Skip to main content

Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.

  1. Home
Life circumstances

Services

192 services

192 services sorted by Most viewed
  • Help if you have a disabled child

    Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education

  • Get a legal separation

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

  • Tax on property, money and shares you inherit

    When you have to pay Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty or Inheritance Tax on money, shares or property you inherit

  • Parents' Learning Allowance

    Parents' Learning Allowance for full-time students with children - funding, apply, eligibility.

  • 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. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.

  • Make decisions on behalf of someone

    Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling

  • Correct a birth registration

    Correct the original registration with the register office or GRO - find out what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes, what they look like

  • Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate

    Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate to legally change your gender.

  • Adding a father's name to a birth certificate

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

  • Come to the UK to get married

    Find out what you need to do if you're coming to the UK to get married. Find out what visa to apply for, and what you need to do before you visit.

    • From: UK Visas and Immigration
  • Separating or divorcing: what you need to do

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

  • Business Relief for Inheritance Tax

    How to get Inheritance Tax relief on business assets in an estate, what qualifies, giving away business property or assets

  • Contact the Court Funds Office

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

  • Adoption records

    If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives

  • Guardian's Allowance

    Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.

  • Report a concern about an attorney, deputy or guardian

    Contact the Office of the Public Guardian if you have concerns about an attorney, deputy, guardian or a decision they've made for someone else

  • Interest on savings for children

    How children's savings accounts are taxed, and the £100 limit on savings given by parents

  • Widowed Parent's Allowance

    Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.

  • Looking after someone else's child

    Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care

  • Child maintenance if a parent lives abroad

    What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.