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1. When the other parent lives in an UNCRAM country

   ...Convention for the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (UNCRAM). Before you apply, you should talk to a lawyer. If you can’t afford a lawyer you may be able to get: legal aid free community legal help Apply to the other parent’s country for child support Information needed by the other country There are no set forms that you must fill in. You just need to include the following information: your full name, address, date of birth, nationality and occupation and the name and address of a lawyer,...

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2. Apply for an Order Preventing Removal

   It’s free to apply for an Order Preventing Removal. Fill in these 2 forms:Order Preventing Removal Choose if you’re applying on notice or without notice. Choose without notice if you believe the child will be taken out of the country in the very near future. The judge will look at the application and can make the Order straightaway and the other person will get to have their say afterwards. If you apply on notice, the other person will be given the chance to respond to your application befo...

3. OIA-124400.pdf [pdf, 799 KB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 28 August 2025 Our ref: OIA 124400 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Proceeds of Crime Fund Thank you for your email of 31 July 2025 requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding allocations from the Proceeds of Crime Fund (the Fund). Specifically, you requested: 1. A breakdown...

4. Legal aid for civil family disputes [pdf, 845 KB]

   Legal aid for civil & family disputes Information about applying for civil & family disputes legal aid If you have any problems meeting your arrangements, contact the Debt Management Group on 0800 600 090 as soon as possible. Your repayment plan may be changed, or in some cases the Commissioner may decide to write off some or all of your legal aid debt or the interest component, if you can’t repay it. If you do not repay or sort out your legal aid debt with the Debt M

5. Legal aid review of criminal legal aid fixed fees - 2013 [pdf, 627 KB]

   ...to legal aid when the Duty Lawyer could address them on the day. An updated operational policy for Duty Lawyers will be uploaded to our website by 1 April 2015. We will advise you closer to the time where this can be found. 4. Letters and forms Providers have raised a number of issues about the material contained in letters from grants officers to providers, and about forms. a. Specific letters that are being queried by providers are those that provide – o advice to cli...

6. Kemp v Matenga - Ngatarawa and Ohiti Waitio Land Trust (2016) 55 Takitimu MB 142 (55 TKT 142) [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...the trust employs an accountant at significant cost who participates in decisions even though he is not a trustee. [13] In addition, she argued that the grants for 2016 were the sole responsibility of the accountant who changed the application forms outside of a trust meeting and dispersed the forms to the applicants and received them at his home. Because she thought the accountant was unwell she took the applications with her to review them. Sandra Matenga claims that she then dis...

7. Raumati - Urenui Pā (2019) 394 Aotea MB 272 (394 AOT 272) [pdf, 293 KB]

   ...gazette notice was issued it did not refer to “the Ngāti Mutunga tribe” and instead made reference to “the common use of the owners” and as a “village and meeting place” not for the “use and occupation” of the iwi as originally requested.2 [2] The gazette notice is clearly in error with the Court recommendation which itself was based on the request of the owners in 1932. On 28 August 2017, an interim judgment was issued setting out the background to this applicat...

8. [2021] NZEnvC 024 Claydon v Far North District Council [pdf, 477 KB]

   ...considered on its merits. Is there an abatement notice under s 325 RMA? [19J There is a dispute as to whether FNDC's officer has issued an abatement notice and therefore whether there is a foundation for the appeal. [20] On a plain reading, the form used is intended to be an inspection notice form. It is titled "Inspection Notice" and has fields for the required information as set out in section 332(4) RMA. The notice also sets out that inspection was carried out pu...

9. HT v CJ Ltd [2019] NZDT 1508 (2 October 2019) [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...witness to the conversation, HT’s account is accepted as the best evidence of what was discussed. 7. The terms of a contract are generally determined by agreement at the time of the contract. A contract need not be in writing; an agreement can be formed verbally or inferred from the parties’ conduct. In this situation, it was understood that the detail of the cover would be contained in the policy document, but the basic contract was already formed before the document was received. I...

10. UC and NT Family Trust v TT Ltd [2020] NZDT 1497 (11 August 2020) [pdf, 137 KB]

    ...therefore would have made a windfall. 6. KC says they had a settlement and referred to email exchanges between UC and TT Ltd. I have considered the email exchanges and find that there was a settlement. Settlement agreements do not need to be formal. In particular the email from TT Ltd to UC dated 30 April 2020 saying they accept the abatement amounts offered being; 0% for Outgoings at all Alert levels 60% for days in Alert level 4 $115.70 + GST per day 15% for days in Alert level...