Stages of life
From birth to death, and everything in between, key events in our lives are underpinned by laws and processes that can seem confusing.
Find out how to navigate your rights at important times in your life.
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Birth
Find out about birth, including your right to different kinds of maternity care, surrogacy, how to register a birth, and birth certificates.
Death
Understand how to register a death and get a death certificate.
Divorce or separation
What you need to understand and do at each step.
Funerals
Find out about options and costs for burials, cremations and funerals.
Gender reassignment
Your rights if you are waiting for or have undergone gender reassignment.
Living together
How to protect each other whatever the future holds.
Marriage and civil partnership
Understand the rules about getting married or forming a civil partnership.
Names
Find out how to change your name, or if you can change a child's name.
Powers of attorney
Find out how to authorise someone else to make decisions about your property and financial affairs or your health and personal welfare, on your behalf.
Wills and trusts
Learn how to make a will, set up a trust or deal with an estate.
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