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1. Family Court applications June 2021 [xlsx, 177 KB]

   ...59,687 applications). In 2020/2021, the 'guardianship' case type had the largest number of applications (28%; 17,329 applications); these applications relate to the Care of Children Act 2004 (excluding Hague) and are mostly applications for parenting orders. The next most frequent case types in 2020/2021 were related to care or protection under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (15%; 9,035 applications), family violence (14%; 8,764 applications), dissolutions/divorce of marriage or civil...

2. Family Court applications December 2020 [xlsx, 177 KB]

   ...applications' workbook published on the Ministry website (www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/research-data/justice-statistics/data-tables/#family) which only includes section 3 adoption applications. Child support The child support scheme (if two parents separate, one may have to pay child support to the other, as financial support for the costs of raising the children) is governed by the Child Support Act 1991 and is managed by Inland Revenue. The applications in this case type i...

3. Youth Court - It’s all relative: the absolute importance of the family in youth justice [pdf, 444 KB]

   ...Statutory mechanisms, interventions and programmes with families .................... 28 A Lay advocates ................................................................................................................................ 28 B Attendance of parent at court. ....................................................................................................... 30 C Parenting Education Programme Order. ................................................................................

4. [2018] NZSSAA 62 (6 December 2018) [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...lawyer. The appellant subsequently purchased another section, paying the deposit of $53,500 from his son’s account on 1 February 2017. The case for the appellant [17] In his notice of appeal, the appellant said that when he applied for a sole parent benefit he completed the application form fully and truthfully. [18] He initially argued that the Ministry reached the decision under appeal by erroneously treating his mortgage as income and that it failed to understand the stru...

5. BORA Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill [pdf, 326 KB]

   ...the Child (UNCRC), and domestic provisions including s 6 of the COCA.[13] 14. We do not consider that there is any breach of s 27 (1) or art 12 here. There are multiple means to ascertain and provide a child's view. They mat be provided through the child parents; [14] lawyer for child;[15] lawyer to assist the court;[16] a specialist report;[17] and directly from the child to the judge through judicial interview[18] or correspondence;[19] either singularly or in combination....

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

   ...which places the grandchildren’s mother Emily Anne Pace as the beneficiary to the Māori land interests of the deceased does not comply with the final intentions of the deceased’s will. 3. The applicant seeks to have matters resolved through the Court correcting its records to be in accordance with the will of the deceased, maintaining that the grandchildren are adversely affected by the order complained of upon the grounds that they have been denied their entitlements...

7. National Standards Committee 1 v Reed [2021] NZLCDT 23 (27 July 2021) [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...satisfied that a clear case was made out that the wife would suffer irreparable injury should the matter be placed on notice, because, among other things, the evidence indicated the apartment had not been occupied as the family home at the date of separation. For this reason, His Honour opined that the apartment “had probably reverted to being (the husband’s) separate property (as he had acquired it in 2006 prior to the marriage in 2011)”. [7] Rather than filing further evide...

8. Family-Court-applications-jun2022-v1.0.xlsx [xlsx, 187 KB]

   ...applications' workbook published on the Ministry website (www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/research-data/justice-statistics/data-tables/#family) which only includes section 3 adoption applications. Child support The child support scheme (if two parents separate, one may have to pay child support to the other, as financial support for the costs of raising the children) is governed by the Child Support Act 1991 and is managed by Inland Revenue. The applications in this case type i...

9. Guardianship, custody & access: Māori perspectives and experiences [pdf, 627 KB]

   ...education and religion. It also includes things such as change of name and major health decisions. Custody is defined as the right to possession and care of a child. This day-to-day care of the child is usually the right of both parents, but if they separate the Family Court can grant a custody order in favour of just one of them if necessary. A parent, step-parent or guardian may apply to be granted custody. The term ‘access’ is only relevant where custody has been given to one parent....

10. DX v WC LCRO 7 / 2011 (17 August 2011) [pdf, 83 KB]

    ...Practitioner, Ms WC (the Practitioner) which declined to uphold his complaints against her. Background [2] The Practitioner had acted for the Applicant since around 2004 in a number of matters, including matrimonial matters when the Applicant separated from his former wife, who I shall refer to as R. By agreement the three daughters remained living with the Applicant. [3] After R moved to Australia in 2007 the Applicant stated that she had been working towards getting the gir...