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• Check if you can get pre-settled status or settled status

  Find out how you and your family can stay in the UK and your rights after Brexit if you’re from the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland.

• Getting a lodger

  What to think about before taking in a lodger and becoming a resident landlord

• Staying in the UK as the parent of a child who lives here

  Check if you can apply for a parent visa, including the rules about your income

• Using mediation to help you separate

  Mediation is a cost-effective way of sorting any differences you have with your ex-partner when you separate. Find out more about mediation

• Loan sharks

  Information about illegal lending, how to check if a lender is properly licensed and what to do if you owe money to a loan shark

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

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

• Extra benefits and help you can get while on DLA

  If you get DLA for your child, you might be able to get extra money from other benefits, a blue badge or a reduction in road tax bills

• 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

• Preparing to apply for pre-settled and settled status

  Find out what you need for your settled status application. Check which documents you might need before you apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. Find out what to do if you think you have a criminal record

• If there's a child protection conference for your child

  Explains what a child protection conference is and when a local council can call for one to be held