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                    [0] => Divorce files contained legal documentation required for the granting of a divorce. These files relate to divorces conducted through the Auckland Supreme/High Court.
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            [name] => Auckland Divorce files
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                    [custom5] => Quarto, Foolscap and Legal size papers, folded and tied with cotton ribbon.  Typically these include the Decree Nisi, Decree Absolute, Affadavits, Motions of Service and Petitions to the court.  Some files also contain Marriage Certificates and even photographs of the petitioned party.
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	LEGISLATION Act to Amend the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1867-81 (No.48) Act to Amend the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1908-19 (No.53)
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	A divorce is the official termination of a marriage. Once a Decree Absolute, the final decree in divorce proceedings, has been granted, it becomes lawful for the respective parties to marry again as if the prior marriage had been dissolved by death. Divorce files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of a divorce.

	Note however that not everyone who filed a petition for divorce actually completed the divorce proceedings. If the parties reconciled after the petition was filed, then the divorce proceedings stopped. If later they wished to terminate the marriage then a new file was started under a new number. Some parties commenced divorce proceedings more than once over a number of years. In some of these cases the husband may have been the petitioner in the first proceedings, and in the second file the wife is the petitioner and the husband the respondent. Petitioning for divorce does not always end in the termination of a marriage. Researchers should not assume that because the family lived in one area, that a divorce could not therefore be filed in a different district.

	Divorce files are particularly valuable for genealogical and social research - they give detailed information about the persons involved. A divorce file should contain most of the following information:

	Full name of husband

	Occupation

	Full name of wife

	Wife’s maiden name

	Where both husband and wife currently reside

	Date of marriage

	Place of marriage e.g. church, chapel, registry office, house etc.

	Area/location where marriage took place

	Name of minister / registrar / celebrant

	Copy of marriage certificate

	Cause of application and dates of events / incidents/ behaviour

	Name of co-respondent

	Co-respondent’s occupation

	Co-respondent’s current address

	Place of birth of husband and wife

	Name of Petitioner’s / Respondent’s / Co-respondent’s Solicitors

	Full names of the children of the marriage

	Ages of the children at time of the petition

	Occasionally personal letters, postcards, or photographs submitted in evidence

	From about 1889 onwards occasionally photographs (usually of the respondent)
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                            [name] => High Court Auckland, Department of Justice
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                            [name] => Hamilton divorce files - first sequence
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	The Manager, Auckland High Court.  Please check the Ministry of Justice’s website for the most up to date contact details at:

	http://www.justice.govt.nz/services/finding-your-local-court/finding-your-local-court

	 
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	Restricted 100 years from date of file closure for reasons of personal privacy
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