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• Check your housing status if you rent from a private landlord

  Check what type of tenancy or other housing status you have if you rent from a private landlord. The rules depend on the date your tenancy started

• Work out which debts to deal with first

  Check which of your debts are ‘priority debts’ that you should deal with first

• Complaining about the Child Maintenance Service

  Find out what you can do if you want to make a complaint about the way the CMS has dealt with you

• Dividing up money and belongings when you separate

  If you and your partner separate, you need to decide how to divide your home and your pension. You also need to divide possessions and money in bank accounts

• Challenging a homeless decision

  Check if you can ask the council to review their decision. Check how to ask them for a review and what you can do if they don’t change the decision

• If you've overstayed your visa or leave

  If you’ve overstayed your visa or leave, you have 90 days to leave the country. You can't usually extend your visa or leave once you've overstayed

• Your right to a fair trial

  Explains how the right to a fair trial is protected by article 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the types of criminal and civil hearings or proceedings that are covered by the article

• Staying in the UK on a visa without your partner

  If you’re in the UK as a dependant on your partner’s visa, you’ll need to check your eligibility to stay in the UK and apply for a new visa if you can. If you’re not eligible to stay in the UK you might have to leave