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How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
You can apply for a Parent of a Child Student visa if your child attends an independent school in the UK.
You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Apply for a Child Student visa to study in the UK if you're under 18 - eligibility, documents, how to apply, extend or switch, how long it takes and how much it costs
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
Your responsibilities as litigation friend of a child with money in a Court Funds Office account - update details, statements, tax vouchers, payments
Parents must register the birth in the country where the child was born - find out if you can also register the birth in the UK.
Find out which gifts count towards the value of the estate, how to value them and work out how much Inheritance Tax may be due.
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
This page provides information about some of the actions you may need to take if you are a UK national living abroad and you are returning to the UK permanently.
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
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