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14 DID THE DECEASED HAVE WHĀNGAI?
Adoption records held by the registries include:
Personal files of adoption cases containing applications, orders, letters of administration
and supporting information including personal information such as wills and whakapapa
(in some district registries known as ‘personality files- adoption’)
General adoption files - files about the process of adoptions, that often include
schedules (lists) of adoptions
Indexes to adoption record...
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14 DID THE DECEASED HAVE WHĀNGAI?
WHANAUNGA
Relative.
WHĀNGAI
A person adopted informally in accordance with tikanga
Māori and brought up as the adopting parent’s own child
without formal adoption being concluded by any Court.
• Subject to any life interest (outlined
above), the deceased’s children are
entitled to any interests in equal shares.
Children legally adopted into the family
are included in the entitlement, but
children legally adopted out are not
• Subject to any life interest (outlined
above), the deceased’s children are
entitled to any interests in equal shares.
Children legally adopted into the family
are included in the entitlement, but
children legally adopted out are not
Full names of children adopted in: ……………….……………………….………………….
Full names of children adopted out: ………………………………………………………….
10 Has there been a previous succession to the deceased?
Entitlement to succession under the Act
When the deceased does not have a will (that is, they are
intestate), succession to Māori land and Māori incorporation
shares will be in accordance with the Act:
• The deceased’s children are entitled to any interests in
equal shares. Children legally adopted into the family are
included in the entitlement, but children legally adopted
out are not
