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• 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.

• Making a will

  Information about making a will and how to change or end a will. How to protect your will against being challenged

• Taking legal action about discrimination

  Process for taking court action about discrimination, including sending a letter before a claim, filling out a claim form and how a defendant should respond

• Deciding what to do when you separate

  What you need to do when you separate from your partner including how to reach an agreement about your children and money, belongings and the family home

• The rules about making a court claim

  The Civil Procedure Rules and the Practice Direction on pre-action conduct are outlines. These must be followed if you take your consumer case to court.

• Check the time limits for taking legal action about discrimination

  Information about acting within time limits, if you want to take legal action about discrimination and how to work out how the time limit applies to your case.

• Step 1: Check it was because of a protected characteristic

  To check if you’ve been discriminated against under the Equality Act 2010, you can check if what you experienced was because of a protected characteristic

• 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

• If your ex-partner is trying to make you leave

  Find out your rights if you and your partner split up and they try to throw you out of your home

• Discrimination because of sex

  Updated 'see Sexual orientation discrimination' link from 'Check if you've experienced discrimination' to 'Discrimination because of sexual orientation'. Discrimination advice project: https://citizensadvice.atlassian.net/browse/CEA-5381