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Sorting out your home when you separate
Get help on what happens to your home when you seperate, if your ex-partner is trying to make you leave or has left and transferring property for children
Registering a civil partnership
Information on how to register a civil partnership covering who can register, the cost of registering and special rules for sick and disabled people and people from abroad
Making agreements about your children when you separate
Find out about making child arrangements, help if your arrangements aren't working and what to do if your ex-partner is taking your children without consent
Paying child maintenance
Information about paying child maintenance. Find out more about paying through the CMS, challenging what they say you should pay and if you owe money
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
Getting child maintenance
Information about getting child maintenance. Get help applying for CMS, challenging what they think you should get and if you're owed money
Check what kinds of behaviour are child abuse
What is meant by the term 'child abuse'. There is no clear legal definition of ‘child abuse’ but there are laws to protect children from harm. Find out more
If you owe child maintenance
Find out what the CMS can do if you don't pay child maintenance and how they can recover payments