WALPOLE & SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES AND JUSTICE [2020] FamCAFC 65
Headifen v. Harker, 549 Fed.Appx. 300 (5th Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child who was born in the United States of America in August 2008 and adopted shortly thereafter. The adoptive parents had married in 2005. The father was a New Zealand national, the mother South African. Both were naturalised citizens of the United States. The family moved to New Zealand on 3 […]
Headifen v. Harker 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80819 (W.D. Tex., 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child who was born in the United States of America in August 2008 and adopted shortly thereafter. The adoptive parents had married in 2005. The father was a New Zealand national, the mother South African. Both were naturalised citizens of the United States of America. The family moved to New Zealand […]
RCL v. APBL [2012] NZHC 1292
The proceedings concerned children, both boys, born in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2006 and 4 November 2007. The parents, both originally from New Zealand, had relocated to the United Kingdom in mid 2001, and had married in August 2002. The parents divorced on 23 March 2010. In May 2010, following mediation, the parents […]
Bayer v. Bayer [2012] NZFLR 567
The proceedings concerned children born in Germany, to married German parents, in November 2000 and August 2003. The family had lived in Germany until August 2006 when the parents took the children to New Zealand to pursue a new life. Permanent residency visas were issued for all family members on 12 October 2007 and indefinite […]
AHC v. CAC Custody [2011] NZFLR 677
The proceedings concerned three children aged 11, 9 and 7 at the time of the proceedings. They had been born and brought up in Northern Ireland by their Northern Irish father and New Zealand mother. After the parents encountered financial difficulties, they agreed that the mother would return to New Zealand to re-qualify to practice […]
MHS v. PIW [2010] NZHC 1462
The proceedings concerned a child born in Australia in August 2006, to an Australian father and a Maori (New Zealand) mother. The parents, who were not married, had a volatile relationship. They separated in the latter part of 2008, agreeing that the child would live with the mother during the week and with the father […]
B. v. Secretary for Justice [2008] NZFLR 723
Procedural Matters The judge noted that where a litigant sought to revisit a finding on the basis of new evidence this had to be done by way of appeal. In the present case this was not the mother’s object, she wished to challenge the implementation of the order on the ground that an 8 month […]
K.M.A. v. Secretary for Justice [2007] NZFLR 891
The mother and father were both New Zealand nationals who began their relationship in New Zealand in 2001. Their first child, a son, was born in August 2002. In 2003 the family moved to Australia. The following year the parents married and had their second child, a daughter. The mother also had two children from […]
H.J. v. Secretary for Justice [2006] NZFLR 1005
The application concerned two children born on 2 May 1999 and 29 May 2000. The mother was a New Zealand citizen; the father, an Australian, was her stepson. Their relationship was intermittent and was characterized by the father’s violence against the mother. The mother removed the two children from Australia to New Zealand in February […]
