Name Tick as appropriate Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out 14 DID THE DECEASED HAVE WHĀNGAI?
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-22-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (371 kb)
Succession to Māori land is intimately tied up with identity and whakapapa and thus adoption records may be essential to an application for succession.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
YES - if YES complete the details below: NO - if NO go to question 11 Name Tick as appropriate Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Date of adoption .......................................................................................................................................................
. – Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton and Rotorua minute books) • Adoptions: Dealt specifically with adoptions between 1909 and 1962
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-Minute-Book-Abbreviations.pdf (470 kb)
Name Tick as appropriate Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out Adopted in Adopted out 14 DID THE DECEASED HAVE WHĀNGAI?
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-21-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (370 kb)
Those entitled to succeed must belong to one or more of the following classes: • descendants • those related by blood to the deceased • those legally adopted. (see page 3 about applying for succession).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
Those entitled to succeed must belong to one or more of the following classes: • descendants • those related by blood to the deceased • those legally adopted. (see page 3 about applying for succession).
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.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
Children legally adopted into the family are included in the entitlement, but children legally adopted out are not
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.7E-SEP21-Succession-Factsheet.pdf (355 kb)
Full names of children adopted in: ……………….……………………….…………………. Full names of children adopted out: …………………………………………………………. 10 Has there been a previous succession to the deceased?
Documents/SILNA/S113-29-93-Appln-to-Determine-Successors-for-SILNA-Lands-Hawea-Wanaka.pdf (407 kb)
