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Legal Factsheets
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The latest advice on legal and money matters
Here at Foothold, we're here to make sure engineers and their families never face life’s challenges alone - and that includes legal and money matters.
Working in collaboration with Law Express, one of the UK's leading providers of independent legal advice, we're pleased to offer a comprehensive collection of legal factsheets. From divorce and work dismissal, to personal injury and inheritance tax, these up-to-date factsheets can guide you in the right direction.
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Our legal factsheets
Browse by category.
Children, marriage, divorce & living together
- Divorce and dissolution
- Finances when a marriage of civil partnership ends
- Separation
- Separation and children
- Relationships: getting started
- Cohabiting
- Domestic abuse
- Mediation
Employment, dismissal & grievance
- Business transfers and TUPE
- Constructive dismissal
- Disciplinary at work
- Dismissal: sickness & capability
- Email and internet policies
- Employment – basic rights
- Employment law – family friendly
- Equality and diversity in the workplace
- Gender recognition
- Grievance procedure at work
- Misconduct at work
- Redundancy
- Social media
- Settlement agreements
Goods and services
Property, neighbours & landlords
- Being a landlord
- Being a landlord – possession proceedings
- Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
- Neighbours
- Inheritance Tax (IHT)
- Being a tenant
- Leasehold property
- 'No fault' eviction for landlords
- Section 8 notice for landlords
Tax
Wills, probate & powers of attorney
- Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
- Wills
- Probate
- Inheritance Tax (IHT)
- Powers of attorney
- First steps when someone dies