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:

  1. Birth
  2. Children and young people
  3. Death
  4. Domestic abuse
  5. Older people
  6. Marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation
  7. Names
  8. Parenting
  9. Parental responsibility
  10. Powers of attorney
  11. Separation, divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships
  12. Sexual and reproductive health
  13. Sexuality and gender issues

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