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The files in this series contained legal papers relating to proceedings heard at the Gore Magistrate's Court and Gore Family Court under the Domestic Proceedings or Family Proceedings Acts.
Family Proceeding files were formerly known as Domestic Proceedings files and could cover issues including:
Separation
Dissolution of marriage
Custody
Guardianship
Paternity of children
Domestic violence
Matrimonial related cases and property issues
Mental health issues
Maintenance cases
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Invercargill Family Court
DX: YX10218
Invercargill
Permission to access Dissolution Orders (by former parties) can be sought from:
Family proceedings files are restricted for 100 years from the date of last paper. Access requires written permission from the Invercargill Family Court.
Dissolution of Marriage or Civil Union Records
Under both High Court Rules and Family Court Rules former parties to a marriage or a civil union have an unrestricted right to obtain a copy of the order dissolving the marriage or civil union. These dissolution orders can be viewed at, or copies obtained from Archives New Zealand on production of sufficient proof of identity (photo identification e.g. passport/drivers’ license).
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1970 ‑
The files in this series contained legal papers relating to proceedings heard at the Gore Magistrate's Court and Gore Family Court under the Domestic Proceedings or Family Proceedings Acts.
Dunedin repository
Numerical
Files
Invercargill Family Court
DX: YX10218
Invercargill
Permission to access Dissolution Orders (by former parties) can be sought from:
Family proceedings files are restricted for 100 years from the date of last paper. Access requires written permission from the Invercargill Family Court.
Dissolution of Marriage or Civil Union Records
Under both High Court Rules and Family Court Rules former parties to a marriage or a civil union have an unrestricted right to obtain a copy of the order dissolving the marriage or civil union. These dissolution orders can be viewed at, or copies obtained from Archives New Zealand on production of sufficient proof of identity (photo identification e.g. passport/drivers’ license).
The files in this series contained legal papers relating to proceedings heard at the Gore Magistrate's Court and Gore Family Court under the Domestic Proceedings or Family Proceedings Acts.
Family Proceeding files were formerly known as Domestic Proceedings files and could cover issues including:
An alternative search system for Archives NZ, inspired by the beautiful simplicity of the beloved Archway system.
π How does it work?
The search results displayed here are sourced directly from the backend of Archives NZ's publicly available Collections Search system, in almost exactly the same way that the official website works, but organised and displayed differently.
To start with, you can do a straight-forward search with a few keywords and an optional date range and whether to focus on digitised items. You then have the option to filter the results futher (such as by Series and Format - photos, documents, etc).
You can highlight search keywords in the results by clicking the orange text in 'X results matching {keywords}'
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You can also browse within a Series or Accession by clicking the Series name. Search for records within that Series by using the search box on that page.
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This alternative search system aims to address some of the shortcomings of Collections Search, such as:
Only 12 search results are displayed at a time
Pages load very slowly
Full name of search result is cut off after a few words
No direct link to scanned documents
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It is almost impossible to browse records within a Series or Accession
π Are my searches private?
Great question! In a nutshell, your searches are visible to me, but anonymous.
Your search queries on this system are recorded in logs for a period of time, without any user-identifiable information associated with them, for debugging purposes.
I have no way of identifying you as a person, or associating your search queries with you.
This website does not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other analytics/tracking software.
π Who made this?
I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have written a few homebrew tools to assist with this research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.