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• Subletting without your landlord’s permission

  Check what might happen if you sublet your home unlawfully, including eviction. Check the extra risks if you have a council or housing association home

• Ways to end your marriage or civil partnership

  Find out how to end your marriage or civil partnership. Divorce or dissolution is the best, permanent way. But you might want a legal separation or annulment.

• Female genital mutilation (FGM)

  Female genital mutilation (FGM) is sometimes called 'female genital cutting' or 'female circumcision'. It's a criminal offence in the UK to carry out FGM

• Transferring property for the benefit of children

  Court powers to make certain property orders if it's for the good of a couple's child or children if a marriage or civil partnership breaks down.

• Living together, marriage and civil partnership

  Overview and content list for living together, marriage and civil partnership.

• Getting married

  Information on who can get married, where marriages can take place, civil and religious services, marriages by proxy, bigamous marriages, polygamous marriages, forced marriages and second marriages.

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

  Differences between how the law treats married and cohabiting couples including financial matters, responsibility for children and housing

• Young people and family

  Rights of children and young people on family matters including adoption, getting married and the rights of parents under 16

• Getting a divorce or ending your civil partnership

  Find out how to end your marriage or civil partnership with a divorce or dissolution.

• Family

  Get advice on family, looking after people and when a relationship ends.