We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
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
Forms and guidance to register an enduring power of attorney (EPA).
Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.
Give details about a person or agent who will deal with the money, possessions, and property when someone dies using form P1000.
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
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
Giving people permission to make decisions about your money and property - how to use, register or cancel an enduring power of attorney
Contact information for the National Records of Scotland
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
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
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.
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
How to send a deceased person's passport back to His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO).
Contact your council to find resources and support to help when you have to cope with a death
Order a commemorative marriage certificate for a gift or keepsake to mark a silver, ruby, golden or diamond wedding anniversary
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
You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.
Check the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office created an Apostille - verify a legalised document
Apply to settle in the UK if your partner dies and you're in the UK as their dependant or partner
Correct an original registration with the register office or GRO - what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).