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Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.

• Overview

  You can apply to be a guardian and manage the finances or property of…

• Who can apply

  You can apply if you’re the missing person’s: husband, wife or civil…

• Apply to be a guardian

  You can make a claim yourself or use a legal representative. Fill in the…

• How much it costs

  You must pay either: a £528 application fee if you apply to the Chancery…

• After you've applied

  The court will send copies of your form back to you, with ‘acknowledgement…

• When you’re appointed as a guardian

  The guardianship order will tell you when you can start to make decisions…

• Make decisions

  The Office of the Public Guardian will supervise you while you act as a…

• Keeping records, giving gifts and claiming expenses

  You must keep financial records and accounts. Follow the rules for gifts…

• Complete your report

  You must write a report for the Office of the Public Guardian each year…

• Make a decision that's not covered by the order

  You must apply to the High Court if you need to change your guardianship,…

• When the guardianship ends

  Your guardianship ends automatically if one of the following things…

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

• Overview

  You must decide which type of joint ownership you want if you buy, inherit…

• Check your ownership details

  You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…

• Change from joint tenants to tenants in common

  This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…

• Change from tenants in common to joint tenants

  You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…

• Selling when an owner has lost mental capacity

  You must apply to the Court of Protection if all of the following apply:…

How to apply for a document to travel outside the UK if you're not British and you cannot use or get your own national passport.

• Overview

  You can apply for a document to travel outside the UK if: you are not…

• Refugee travel document

  You can apply for a refugee travel document if either: you have refugee…

• Stateless person’s travel document

  You can apply for a stateless person’s travel document if you have been…

• Certificate of travel

  You can apply for a certificate of travel if one of the following is true:…

• One way travel document

  You can apply for a one way travel document if you meet all of the…

• Family members

  Each family member must apply for their own travel document separately. If…

• How to apply

  Before you apply If you have less than 6 months’ permission to stay in the…

• After you apply

  It can take up to 14 weeks to get a decision once you’ve submitted your…

• Report your lost or stolen travel document

  If your travel document is lost or stolen, you must report it to the Home…

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Change or cancel a presumption of death certificate where there's clear evidence the missing person is still alive or that they died on a different date to what's on the certificate.

The previously unmarked grave of an Edinburgh man of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons has now been identified and marked more than a century after his death.

• Updated: 19 March 2025

Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.

More than a century after his death, the previously unmarked grave of Corporal of Horse (CoH) Charles Edward Dean has finally been identified and marked.

• Updated: 18 March 2025

What a cattle movement is, what you need to do before you move cattle, and when you must not move cattle.

• Updated: 4 December 2023