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                    [0] => This series contains case files for probates issued by the High Court registry at Masterton District Court.
                )

            [id] => 18578
            [idSort] => 18578
            [name] => Masterton probate files [fourth sequence]
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                            [0] => 25486
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            [authenticityNote] => 

	Digital copies of these probates are available online via FamilySearch: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481
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                    [normalizedValue] => 1947-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                    [normalizedValue] => 2000-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                            [0] => approximate
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                            [name] => Legal Files
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            [history] => 

	This series contains case files for probates issued by the High Court registry at Masterton District Court.

	Probate case files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of a probate on a will. However, not everyone who had made a will has a probate file.  The size of the estate was a determining factor in whether wills went to probate.  Those wills that were probated were usually lodged in the High Court nearest to where the deceased resided.

	If a person died without making a will then there may be letters of administration, which contain the legal documentation required for the administration of an intestate person's estate.

	Later recordkeeping systems

	A new national records management system was introduced in all Courts in the early 2000s.  Court records from c.2000 onward have been entered into this recordkeeping system.

	Earlier sequences of probates for Masterton/Wairarapa can be found in Series 18577, Series 18576 and Series 18575.
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                            [name] => Wellington repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => by annual single number
            [seriesAccessContacts] => 

	Please ask staff at the Wellington Head Office of Archives New Zealand for further information.
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => 

	Probate files more than 50 years old are restricted in order to preserve the originals, as digitised copies are available online via Family Search at: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481
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