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A subtribe or kin group that is linked by a common ancestor.
4. Land (other than Māori customary land and Crown land reserved for Māori)
that has not been alienated from the Crown for a subsisting estate in fee simple.
5.
The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership
rights.
2. The division of Māori land into two or more separate titles (partition).
A claim or liability attached to property, for example a lease, a mortgage or a
charge.
2. When the High Court confirms the appointment of an executor to administer the
will of a deceased person, the authority for that person to act is given in a grant of
probate.
3.
The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership
rights.
2. A person who receives, as of right, a share of a deceased person’s estate.
3.
(c) To give certainty to the parties, Step 1 must be completed within 21 days of the
parties agreeing in writing to adopt the ADR process, save that the parties may
extend this timeframe by mutual agreement in writing.
Step 2- Mandatory Mediation
(d) If Step 1 fails to resolve the dispute, then a mandatory mediation must be held
within 60 days of Step 1 ending, save that the parties may extend this timeframe
by mutual agreement in writing.
If you do
not want proxy voting, you can omit the paragraphs highlighted in green and you will not need to
attach a proxy form to the trust order.
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PART D - TRUSTEES
NUMBER AND TERMS OF TRUSTEES
The trust must at all times have no more than [6] and no fewer than [4] trustees.
Other Trustee duties
3.7 Each Trustee must perform the duties set out in Schedule 1.
Comment Box 2
1. The Trusts Act 2019 (the Trusts Act) has introduced ‘mandatory’ duties that must be
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performed by trustees.