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You must usually tell the Home Office when you divorce or separate from your partner if your visa is based on your relationship

• Tell the Home Office

  You must usually tell the Home Office when you divorce or separate from…

• Apply to stay in the UK

  If your visa is based on a relationship that’s ended you must apply if you…

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

• Getting a financial agreement

  When you divorce or end a civil partnership you and your ex-partner need…

• If you agree

  It’s usually more straightforward and less expensive if you agree how to…

• Get help agreeing

  A mediator can help you and your ex-partner agree on how to split money…

• Get the court to decide

  If you and your ex-partner cannot agree how to divide your finances you…

• Maintenance payments

  The court sometimes tells the person with the higher income to make…

• Tax when transferring assets

  You do not usually have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you give, or otherwise…

How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order

Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.

• Updated: 12 March 2025

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

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

Information for ultra small emitters (USEs) on eligibility and compliance.

• Updated: 15 October 2025

How to make arrangements for your children if you divorce or separate, mediation and how to apply for a court order if you cannot agree.

Form PF53: Order for separate trial of an issue (rule 3.1(2)(i)).

Form No.48: Order after separate trial of issue under rule 3.1(2)(i).