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Setting up a business involves complying with a range of legal requirements. Find out which ones apply to you and your new enterprise.

What particular regulations do specific types of business (such as a hotel, or a printer, or a taxi firm) need to follow? We explain some of the key legal issues to consider for 200 types of business.

While poor governance can bring serious legal consequences, the law can also protect business owners and managers and help to prevent conflict.

Whether you want to raise finance, join forces with someone else, buy or sell a business, it pays to be aware of the legal implications.

From pay, hours and time off to discipline, grievance and hiring and firing employees, find out about your legal responsibilities as an employer.

Marketing matters. Marketing drives sales for businesses of all sizes by ensuring that customers think of their brand when they want to buy.

Commercial disputes can prove time-consuming, stressful and expensive, but having robust legal agreements can help to prevent them from occurring.

Whether your business owns or rents premises, your legal liabilities can be substantial. Commercial property law is complex, but you can avoid common pitfalls.

With information and sound advice, living up to your legal responsibilities to safeguard your employees, customers and visitors need not be difficult or costly.

As information technology continues to evolve, legislation must also change. It affects everything from data protection and online selling to internet policies for employees.

Intellectual property (IP) isn't solely relevant to larger businesses or those involved in developing innovative new products: all products have IP.

Knowing how and when you plan to sell or relinquish control of your business can help you to make better decisions and achieve the best possible outcome.

From bereavement, wills, inheritance, separation and divorce to selling a house, personal injury and traffic offences, learn more about your personal legal rights.

From bereavement, wills, inheritance, separation and divorce to selling a house, personal injury and traffic offences, learn more about your personal legal rights.

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Business owners can find it difficult to get a mortgage if profits are retained in the business. Discover how business owners can obtain a mortgage.
Inheritance tax is based on the value of your estate when you die. Careful planning can reduce or even eliminate the amount of IHT you pay
A lasting power of attorney (LPA) gives someone else the power to make certain decisions on your behalf, typically if you are no longer able to do so
How to apply for a financial order when you and your partner have failed to agree a divorce financial settlement between yourselves
Divorce glossary explaining divorce and family law terms in simple English to help you understand the legal jargon used by divorce lawyers
How moving in together affects your legal position. The rights and responsibilities of cohabiting couples and what happens if the relationship ends
Agreeing the arrangements for your children: how child custody is decided, what rights the non-resident parent has and getting a court order
Breach of employment contract - what is it and what can you do about it?
Nobody wants to pay unnecessary legal fees, but you also need to ask yourself whether getting divorced without using a lawyer would risk causing serious problems
How to register a civil partnership, financial affairs and children for civil partners, and how a civil partnership can be brought to an end
Understanding when spousal maintenance should be part of a divorce financial settlement. How much, for how long, and when it can be changed
When child maintenance is payable, how much child maintenance should be, making child maintenance arrangements and how to enforce payment
How to get the right advice from your divorce lawyer without unnecessary cost: being organised and patient, compromising and managing your emotions
How to use a consent order to make a divorce settlement legally binding. What to include, the court application and whether you can change it later
Rising funeral costs and funeral debt is a growing problem. Read our explanation and find out what support is available