In the US, our Supreme Court just passed a ruling that allows the police to break down your doors unannounced.

If this is what I'm thinking of, the ruling was that law enforcement doesn't have to knock when serving a warrent.

I've used quicken for many years and must say that it is a great product.  There are a few negatives, such as hiding the built-in categories that I don't use.  You can, by the way, search for transactions with a blank category by entering a space.

Classes add an additional dimension to categories.  I don't use them myself as I have no need, but it would be simple to set up classes for home and business and easily be able to separate the two on reports and so on.