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Contact your local council to find a registered childminder - Family Information Service, early years education, childcare and family support in your area
How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Contact the Office of the Public Guardian if you have concerns about an attorney, deputy, guardian or a decision they've made for someone else
How you can have a marriage annulled, the reasons you can give for annulling a marriage and the forms you will need to apply for an annulment. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.
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 they look like
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.
Parents' Learning Allowance for full-time students with children - funding, apply, eligibility.
Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling
Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office
Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate to legally change your gender.
How to contact the Court Funds Office - email, phone, address, complaints
How children's savings accounts are taxed, and the £100 limit on savings given by parents
Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.
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
Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.
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
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