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Emergency Alerts Test on Sunday 7 September, 3pm
What happens to money in your Court Funds Office account after your 18th birthday
How to stop being an attorney under a lasting power of attorney (LPA).
Appealing to a Mental Health Tribunal if you're sectioned: how to appeal, what happens at a hearing and what to do if you lose your case
Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care
How to apply to have your child returned if they've been abducted, or arrange contact or enforce a court order in EU, Hague Convention and non-Hague Convention countries
How to apply to the Court of Protection to make a will for someone who is not able to make one themselves, what forms to use, how much it costs and how the court decides
Self declaration form and accompanying notes for British nationals to get married or register a civil partnership (PACS) in France. For use in place of certificates of celibacy and custom.
How to object to the registration of a lasting or enduring power of attorney - including forms and fees
Apply to foster a child through the social services department of your local council.
Where and how to register a stillbirth, who can register it, financial support you may be able to get and support organisations
Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders
Forms and guidance for making statutory declarations when applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Complete this label and attach it to the envelope containing your last will and testament when you send it to HMCTS to be stored.
Appoint a public official to act as executor of your estate if no one else can do it - the Public Trustee, Official Solicitor, fees, contact
Use this form to apply to extend your stop on a probate application (known as a caveat).
Search for the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986
You need an exhumation licence if you are removing human remains from the ground
Refunds for application fees for lasting power of attorneys and enduring power of attorneys
Forms for court-appointed deputies to report actions taken on behalf of their clients in the past year.
Forms to object to the registration of a lasting power of attorney (LPA) or an enduring power of attorney (EPA).
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