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Protect your right to live in a registered or unregistered property owned by your spouse or civil partner during a divorce or separation - getting home rights, after a continuation order

• Overview

  You can register your ‘home rights’ with HM Land Registry - this can help…

• Apply if the property is registered

  Download and fill in the application for registration of a notice for home…

• Apply if the property is unregistered

  Download and fill in the application for registration of a ‘Class F Land…

Information note on Matrimonial Property

• Updated: 19 May 2022

The Law Commission commenced a project in 2009 to examine the status and enforceability of marital property agreements.

• Updated: 27 February 2014

How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.

Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

Check you can get a divorce, agree or disagree with a divorce application, what to do if your husband or wife lacks mental capacity.

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

Find out about a scheme used by individual landlords to avoid paying tax on their property income and reduce Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax.

• Updated: 16 May 2025

How to get married or form a civil partnership in the UK, giving notice of marriage at a register office, visas, paying fees.

This document contains the following information: Family law: matrimonial property

• Updated: 8 December 1988