Before you file your application, make sure you have: Meeting information: minutes, attendance lists, and any notices (such as advertisements) for meetings of owners where the proposed partition was discussed.
How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-apply-for-Partition-of-Maori-freehold-land.pdf (490 kb)
Te Whakamaene also provides the administrative support for all Notices of Appeal to the Māori Appellate Court across which the whole of the Māori Land Court sits.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
If you do apply to one of these courts, you must file a notice of your application with the MLC so it won’t make any orders before the High Court or Family Court has dealt with the matter.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.7E-SEP21-Succession-Factsheet.pdf (362 kb)
(Address to which documents or correspondence in connection with the application can be posted or delivered) PHONE NUMBER(S): Home: Work: Mobile: Email Address: NOTE: Where email addresses are given these may be used as a means of notice and service. FEE: $228.00 NOTE: Information provided in all applications forms part of the Court’s permanent record under rule 7.19 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-33-Confirmation-of-resolution.pdf (183 kb)
Contesting the will If anyone wants to contest 26 the deceased’s will, they can make application to the High Court or the Family Court for hearing under the Family Protection Act 1955. Notice of the application to the High Court or the Family Court should be filed with the Māori Land Court so that it will not inadvertently make any orders before the High Court or the Family Court has dealt with the matter.
Contesting the will If anyone wants to contest 26 the deceased’s will, they can make application to the High Court or the Family Court for hearing under the Family Protection Act 1955. Notice of the application to the High Court or the Family Court should be filed with the Māori Land Court so that it will not inadvertently make any orders before the High Court or the Family Court has dealt with the matter.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
If you are a whānau or hapū member who did not submit the application but would like to speak in Court, you can file a ‘ Notice of intention to appear upon application ’.
Ngā tono $68 $68 applications Succession to Māori land Transfer of shares in Māori land Establishment of a trust over Māori land Adding, reducing, or removing trustees of a trust which manages Māori land Determining the ownership of structures on Māori land Occupation of Māori land Ngā tono $228 $228 applications Partition, subdivision, amalgamation and aggregation of Māori land Anything related to a Māori incorporation Roadways, access, easements and surveys of Māori land Commercia...
Currently under the Act it is not possible to appoint a trustee or trustees to administer land in such circumstances because the Court is required to be satisfied that the owners “have had sufficient notice of the application and sufficient opportunity to discuss and consider it” per s 215(4)(a).
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
You will need to provide: evidence of meetings held (including the notice) to add, reduce or replace trustees and the meeting minutes resignations (if any) for existing trustees evidence that a trustee or trustees have passed away The person(s) being becoming a trustee will also need to complete a trustee consent form to indicate that they consent to the appointment.
