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• Negotiating your debt with bailiffs

  Find out how you can negotiate your debt with bailiffs - including working out your what you can afford and making a payment arrangement

• Challenging an eviction with discrimination law

  Find out how you can defend your eviction by telling the court about discrimination from your landlord

• Arranging financial support after you separate

  If you're married or in a civil partnership, you can apply for financial support (‘spousal maintenance’) from your ex when you separate. Find out more about what you can get or need to pay

• Creditor takes money from your bank account

  Information on third party debt orders to take money owed to you to pay creditors, how they affect your bank account and what to do if a frozen bank account leads to hardship

• If you're owed child maintenance

  Find out what you can do if you're not getting the child maintenance payments you're owed

• Young people and family

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

• Dealing with the financial affairs of someone who has died

  Information on the role of the executor or administrator in dealing with the estate of a deceased person

• You can't afford to top up your prepayment meter

  Ways you can make your prepayment meter more affordable, and how to get gas or electricity urgently if you've run out of credit

• Check how to switch your internet, phone or TV provider

  How to switch your landline, mobile phone, internet or TV provider to get a cheaper deal

• Paying child maintenance through the CMS

  Find out when you have to pay child maintenance, how much you'll have to pay and how to pay