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• Getting a divorce or ending your civil partnership

  Getting a divorce or ending your civil partnership This advice applies to England. See advice for See advice for Northern Ireland, See advice for Scotland, See advice for Wales If you want to end

• Deciding what to do when you separate

  , there are things you'll need to work out. The partner you’re separating from could be your husband, wife or civil partner - even if you’re not divorcing or ending your civil partnership straight

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

  can separate informally but if you want to end the marriage formally, you will need to go to court and get divorced. Both partners have a right to stay in the home until either there has been

• Ways to end your marriage or civil partnership

  to permanently end your marriage, you should apply for a divorce. If you’re in a civil partnership and want to permanently end your civil partnership, you should apply for a dissolution. If you don’t

• Q3 - reaching

  . My husband leaves me a sandwich on a plate on the work surface for my lunch. He also has to brush my hair for me every day. If I try to do it myself it's too painful. I've had my hair cut short so

• Q4 - picking up and moving things

  husband had opened. I managed to pick it up but had a shooting pain in my wrist and dropped the carton on the floor. The juice went everywhere and I had to wait for my husband to come home to clean

• Check if you have the right to reside for benefits

  and Lena get divorced and Jakub moves back to Poland. Lena loses the right to reside she got from her husband, but can get a derivative right to reside from her child. Getting the right evidence When you

• Staying in the UK on a visa without your partner

  as a dependant on your partner's visa, your visa status could change when you separate or divorce. It's worth getting help from a specialist legal adviser who can advise you on your individual

• Q6: washing and bathing

  - usually around 5 days out of 7 - and don’t get out of bed on some of those days. “My husband works so I am usually on my own during the day and it’s not safe for me to have a bath. I have to wait

• Check you have the ‘right to reside’ for housing

  of a worker because she’s married to Jakub. Jakub and Lena get divorced and Jakub moves back to Poland. Lena loses the right to reside she got from her husband, but can get a derivative right to reside