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These are: • Form 36 – application to constitute a whānau trust (non-succession) • Form 23 – application to form whānau trust (to be used with an application for succession) Option One – Form 36 Application to constitute a whānau trust (non- succession) Use this form if: • the shareholders are alive • they want their own interests vested into a whānau trust for the benefit of the descendants of a named person or group, such as descendants of a particular tupun...

How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-constitute-a-whanau-trust.pdf (512 kb)

Usually successions were fairly routine, but matters could get complicated in the case of adoptions, which often created intricate legal and factual problems.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)

For more information about succession, please refer to Succession, available from Māori Land Court offices.

Uploads/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)

For more information about succession, please refer to Succession, available from Māori Land Court offices.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)

On this page If the mediation is successful If the mediation is unsuccessful If the mediation is successful Our dispute resolution process is considered 'successful' when both parties agree on an outcome at mediation.

Located in:  Our application process Receive the outcome

who claim(s) to be entitled to an interest under the will or on the intestacy of the deceased person The Court has made a succession order and additional interests of the deceased person in Māori freehold land have been located.

Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-22A-Application-for-succession-additional-interests.pdf (212 kb)

The MLC may also review an occupation order at the request of any shareholder in the land or the person in whom the order is vested. SUCCESSION Succession to occupation orders can occur.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)

Whenua Māori governance Describe your understanding of matters relating to trusts, incorporations, succession, marae structures and governance, and Māori reservations issues.

Documents/Articles/MLC-DRS-expression-of-interest-application-form.pdf (2 mb)

At 2025 Chief Judge’s MB 373-390 (4 February 2025) the Court made orders amending a succession order to Teone Karepe I or Hoani Karepe at 32 T 117-119 (30 May 1972) and cancelling a succession order to Porokuru Te Kiwi at 155 ROT MB 234 (30 November 1970).

Located in:  Hui and court hearings Landowner notices

To download it, go online to maorilandcourt.govt.nz/about-mlc/publications SUCCESSION TO SHARES Shares in a Māori incorporation are deemed to be shares in Māori land, and succession is arranged in the same way as for Māori land.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)