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Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
Contact details for the General Register Office for Northern Ireland
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
Search for unclaimed money in a Court Funds Office account - find account, get information and claim
If there are any errors on a marriage or civil partnership certificate you can 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…
If someone dies without a will or known family, their ownerless property (bona vacantia) goes to the crown - check if you're an entitled relative, search for an estate, refer or claim on an estate
Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.
Make an urgent or emergency application to get permission to make decisions for someone who lacks mental capacity including interim applications for people applying to be a deputy
Correct an original registration with the register office or GRO - what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes
Acting as an attorney - duties, including finding an enduring power of attorney, registering an EPA, starting to act, making gifts and stopping being an attorney
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
How to get Inheritance Tax relief on business assets in an estate, what qualifies, giving away business property or assets
Apply through your local council for short-term ('respite') care for your sick or disabled child to enable you to have a break from caring
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
Find out how to convert a same-sex civil partnership into a marriage, costs, converting abroad.
Forms and guidance to register an enduring power of attorney (EPA).
Where and how to register a stillbirth, who can register it, financial support you may be able to get and support organisations
Contact your council to find resources and support to help when you have to cope with a death
You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
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