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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.
You can apply to be a guardian and manage the finances or property of…
You can apply if you’re the missing person’s: husband, wife or civil…
You can make a claim yourself or use a legal representative. Fill in the…
You must pay either: a £528 application fee if you apply to the Chancery…
The court will send copies of your form back to you, with ‘acknowledgement…
The guardianship order will tell you when you can start to make decisions…
The Office of the Public Guardian will supervise you while you act as a…
You must keep financial records and accounts. Follow the rules for gifts…
You must write a report for the Office of the Public Guardian each year…
You must apply to the High Court if you need to change your guardianship,…
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
You must decide which type of joint ownership you want if you buy, inherit…
You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…
This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…
You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…
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.
You can apply for a document to travel outside the UK if: you are not…
You can apply for a refugee travel document if either: you have refugee…
You can apply for a stateless person’s travel document if you have been…
You can apply for a certificate of travel if one of the following is true:…
You can apply for a one way travel document if you meet all of the…
Each family member must apply for their own travel document separately. If…
Before you apply If you have less than 6 months’ permission to stay in the…
It can take up to 14 weeks to get a decision once you’ve submitted your…
If your travel document is lost or stolen, you must report it to the Home…
Get a declaration of presumed death if a person has been missing for at least 7 years or you think they've died - form N208, certificate of presumed death, appeal, complain
Find a BFPO number, send mail to and from British forces personnel and their families
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.
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.
What a cattle movement is, what you need to do before you move cattle, and when you must not move cattle.
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