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Creative use of s46G counselling orders – with one psychologist per party, using peace-making therapeutic skills in a collaborative approach

New Zealand First’s election platform included a policy of making Family Court counselling more effective.

We hope that the new government will encourage more creative use of the existing system, before making changes that may prove unnecessarily disruptive.

The collaborative approach outlined below is one such creative innovation, achieved within the existing system.

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Reduce the family friction – put controls in your EPA (enduring power of attorney) – to protect your attorney from attack by other members of the family

If you become incapable of making decisions, or of communicating decisions, who will do this for you?

The cheapest answer is to appoint an ‘attorney’ beforehand, by a document known as an ‘enduring power of attorney’ (‘EPA’).  [Read more…] about Reduce the family friction – put controls in your EPA (enduring power of attorney) – to protect your attorney from attack by other members of the family

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Keep others honest and yourself humble – it’s legal to record your phone conversations, without disclosing the fact

In New Zealand, that is. Do NOT rely on this if you are outside New Zealand.

In general terms, if you are on a phone call to someone else, you may record that call. Except in special circumstances (e.g. if you are a member of a profession with a specific ethical code that requires disclosure, or if specific contractual provisions apply), you are not required to disclose the fact that you are recording. [Read more…] about Keep others honest and yourself humble – it’s legal to record your phone conversations, without disclosing the fact

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Bemused family lawyer? Let’s start at the beginning… with the Interpretation Act 1999

Want to meddle with the Official Forms? Or use discretion to make two parenting orders instead of one? Or set clear contact or changeover times in Family Court orders?  Help is at hand. You need not wander, lonely as a dog, over a riverbed, chasing a rainbow…

Introducing…not Superman, but the Interpretation Act 1999 (drum roll, please) [Read more…] about Bemused family lawyer? Let’s start at the beginning… with the Interpretation Act 1999