Family Law – Adult Relationships brings together the key New Zealand law governing personal relationships between adults.

Adult Relationships contains commentary in a mixture of annotated and discursive styles for the principal statutes governing this area of law. The main legislation is the Family Violence Act 2018 with introduction and accompanying commentary, excerpts of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 relating to marriage, separation and dissolution with introduction and accompanying commentary, the Marriage Act 1955 with introduction and accompanying commentary and an introduction to the Civil Union Act 2004. The main discursive material is the "Protecting Children from Family Violence" chapter, where discussion includes the intersection between family violence and the Care of Children Act 2004.

Accompanying the key pieces of legislation are related statutes and regulations without commentary. There is a subject index, and in the looseleaf and ProView products there is also a table of statutes and regulations and a table of cases.

This work is available in looseleaf, online and as an eReference (in ProView).

Civil Union

• Introduction to the Civil Union Act 2004

Family Violence

• Introduction to Family Violence
• Family Violence Act 2018
• Comparative Table: Family Violence Act 2018 to Domestic Violence Act 1995
• Comparative Table: Domestic Violence Act 1995 to Family Violence Act 2018
• Power and Control Wheel

Family Proceedings

• Introduction to Dispute Resolution and Dissolution
• Family Proceedings Act 1980 – pts 1–5
• Procedure for Dispute Resolution

Marriage

• Introduction to the Marriage Act 1955
• Marriage Act 1955
• Domicile Act 1976

Protecting Children From Violence

Practice Notes

Related Legislation

Other

• Legislative Tables
• Table of Cases
• Subject Index

Citation

This product may be cited as follows:

• Online: Liz Lewes and others Family Law – Adult Relationships (online ed, Thomson Reuters).
• ProView: Liz Lewes and others Family Law – Adult Relationships (eBook ed, Thomson Reuters).
• Looseleaf: Liz Lewes and others Family Law – Adult Relationships (looseleaf ed, Thomson Reuters).