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The article is based on information from the Citizens Advice Bureau, a reputable organization offering free, confidential, and impartial advice on legal, financial, housing, employment issues, and more.

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Living together, marriage and civil partnership

• Getting married

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

• Registering a civil partnership

• Living together and civil partnership - legal differences

How to separate

• Deciding what to do when you separate

• Using mediation to help you separate

• Ways to end your marriage or civil partnership

• Getting a divorce or ending your civil partnership

Sorting out money when you separate

• Arranging financial support after you separate

• Help with legal fees when you separate

• Benefits and help with council tax when you separate

• Dividing up money and belongings when you separate

Making agreements about your children when you separate

• Making child arrangements

• Your child arrangements aren't working

• Your ex-partner is taking your children without consent

Sorting out your home when you separate

• What happens to your home when you separate

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

• If your ex-partner has left your home

• Transferring property for the benefit of children

Death and wills

• What to do after a death

• Dealing with the financial affairs of someone who has died

• Arranging a funeral

• Complaining about a funeral

• Making a will

• Who can inherit if there is no will – the rules of intestacy

• What to do if someone dies abroad

Gender violence

• Domestic abuse

• Rape and sexual assault

• Domestic violence and abuse - getting help

• Female genital mutilation (FGM)

Children, young people and parenting

• Child maintenance

• Protecting children

• Local council support for children and families

• Young people and family

Looking after people

• Carers: help and support

• Managing affairs for someone else

Education

• Overview of discrimination in education

• Disability discrimination in schools

• Sorting out school problems

• Help with school costs

• Taking action about discrimination in education

• Claiming 15 hours of free childcare for children under 3 years old