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1. LCRO 57/2021 FC v HS, FM and QP (8 September 2023) [pdf, 224 KB]

   ...her with various resulting legal processes. [4] Ms HS was a director of [Law firm A]. Ms FM and Mr QP were employed solicitors at the firm. 2 [5] There were three legal work streams undertaken by [Law firm A] for Ms FC. They were: (a) dissolution of marriage proceedings, which were apparently defended; (b) domestic violence proceedings, involving initially Ms FC’s defence of an application brough by Mr OL and then a counter-application brought or intended to be brought b...

2. A guide for media reporting in the Family Court [pdf, 253 KB]

   ...leave the court. Judges may invite the parties to proceedings to indicate their view about reporters being present. Some 36 statutes come within the Family Court’s largely civil jurisdiction. Commonly, the court hears cases concerning separation, dissolution of marriage, spousal maintenance and child support. Two-thirds of disputed applications before the court concern care arrangements for children. Matters concerning children’s care and protection and domestic violence also f...

3. 10.6 Appendix F: Media Guide for reporting in the Family Court

   ...to leave the court. Judges may invite the parties to proceedings to indicate their view about reporters being present. Some 36 statutes come within the Family Court’s largely civil jurisdiction. Commonly, the court hears cases concerning separation, dissolution of marriage, spousal maintenance and child support. Two-thirds of disputed applications before the court concern care arrangements for children.  Matters concerning children’s care and protection and domestic violence also feature p...

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4. G21: Without notice interlocutory application for substituted service & affidavit [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...SUBSTITUTED SERVICE & GENERAL AFFIDAVIT 1 Changing the way I serve divorce papers WITHOUT NOTICE INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATION FOR SUBSTITUTED SERVICE (G21) AND AFFIDAVIT When to use this form Use this form when you’re applying for a divorce (dissolution of marriage or civil union) and the divorce documents can’t be given onto the other person in the normal way (personally handed to your spouse or partner by someone other than you). When you file your application for a divorce, the...

5. LCRO 253/2013 DN v TW (8 August 2017) [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...advised she would have made different decisions, could have adopted a different strategy, got a better result sooner, and been charged lower fees. 3 [11] The dominant themes begin with a complaint about the timing of Ms DN’s application for dissolution, move through Ms DN’s experience of the negotiation and court processes, and focus on a claim she pursued under s 13 of the PRA. Ms DN asserts that no such claim could be sustained on the facts, and relies on a second opi...

6. Pace - Margaret Rose Karaka [2018] Chief Judge's MB 86 (2018 CJ 86) [pdf, 407 KB]

   ...applicant’s mother concealed her disqualification from being a beneficiary to the deceased’s estate in April 1986. The objectors further maintain that any relief sought by the applicant is dependent upon the production of the applicant’s mother’s Dissolution of Marriage certificate. Discussion [10] Pursuant to s 44 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, the Chief Judge may cancel or amend an order made by the Court or a Registrar, if satisfied that the order was erroneous i...

7. E Ltd v MN as trustee of NC Family Trust & OC [2024] NZDT 182 (22 July 2024) [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...amount of $12,062.35. The work was carried out for the NC Family Trust. Ms MN confirms she a trustee of the trust and has been from 1996 to the present. [3] Mr OC confirms he was a trustee of the trust from 1996 to 5 March 2021. After an acrimonious marriage break up and settlement agreement, he resigned his trusteeship on 5 March 2021. [4] Neither respondent deny the amount claimed is due, each only seeking to have the other pay it. After accepting Mr OC resigned from the trust on 5 Ma...

8. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v Hancock [2011] NZLCDT 39 [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...unbearable burden of the mismanagement of his firm’s trust funds. [9] Mr Hancock has been a sole practitioner for a number of years. Sadly, for Mr Hancock, his entry into sole practice was not a happy or easy one. He had some difficulties with the dissolution of his previous partnership including taking over a number of dormant balances and difficult files from a practitioner who had begun to succumb to dementia. Around the same time Mr Hancock’s own marriage broke up and t...

9. Justice Statistics data tables - notes and trends December 2020 [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...Children Act 2004 (excluding Hague) and are mostly 8 applications for parenting orders. The next most frequent case types in 2020 were related to care or protection under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (16%), family violence (15%), dissolutions/divorce of marriage or civil unions (13%) and mental health (13%) (Figure 6). In 2020, half (8,655; 50%) of the Care of Children Act 2004 (excluding Hague) applications were for parenting orders; another 1,721 applications (10...

10. OIA-Adoption Law Reform [pdf, 1019 KB]

    ...nearly 70 years. From the 1950s until the 1980s there was a prevalent view that it was best for children born to unmarried or single women to be placed for adoption. Adoption was intended to avoid the stigma for women of having a child outside marriage, prevent the child being labelled as ‘illegitimate’, and provide the child with the stability of a two-parent family. 17. The Act was based on a ‘clean break’ between the birth and adoptive families. Upon adoption, the child...