Family Law

Family Law

Bush Forbes Lawyers can provide you with practical and sensible advice about your family and property including the care of your children, your personal relationships, your family property, estate planning and entering or exiting any relationship.

We all face exciting, challenging, rewarding, happy and sad times in our lives, especially when your loved ones are involved. From beginning a relationship, to starting a family, to creating an asset base, to ending a relationship or planning your estate, the specialist family law team at Bush Forbes Lawyers can help you at every step in a caring and supportive environment.

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Relationship Property

Bush Forbes can help you to protect your assets when entering into a relationship or advising you on your rights when exiting a relationship. Our expertise include:

  • Contracting Out Agreements (pre-nup)
  • Separation and property relationship agreements
  • Application for division of relationship property
  • Spousal maintenance
  • Dissolution of marriage (divorce)
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Care of Children and Parenting Arrangements

Bush Forbes can assist you with the care and contact (previously known as custody and access), arrangements for your children when you separate as well as guardianship matters. We are more than happy to discuss with you how the law works in relation to supporting children’s welfare and their best interests and how those arrangements might work for you and your children.  Our expertise include:

  • Parenting Orders – Applying for or reviewing existing
  • Guardianship matters, including additional guardianship (other family members such as stepparents/grandparents)
  • Oranga Tamariki Act matters
  • Child support
  • Paternity
  • Relocation
  • Adoption and surrogacy

Tauranga Barristers and Solicitors

Bush Forbes is a well established and successful full service law firm located in Tauranga, New Zealand.

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