Family and personal

Family difficulties and personal problems can be very stressful and upsetting. Because of the emotions involved they sometimes have a tendency to get out of hand. To deal with them you need to know how the law works, and what your rights and options are.
Select a category to see our selection of the web’s best information on common family issues:
- Birth
- Abortion
- Birth certificates
- Children and young people
- Adoption
- Child abuse
- Child residence
- Child support
- Childcare
- Childrens welfare
- Fostering
- Local authority care
- Death
- Death certificates
- Funerals
- Wills and trusts
- Domestic abuse
- Elderly people
- Concessions for elderly people
- Retirement
- Marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation
- Civil partnership
- Cohabitation
- Marriage
- Names
- Parenting
- Parental responsibility
- Powers of attorney
- Separation, divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships
- Conciliation and mediation
- Dissolution of civil partnerships
- Divorce
- Financial provision
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Sexuality and gender issues