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Co-Parenting During an Upside Down World
As New Zealand enters another lockdown, you may feel the world has been tipped on its head again. If you are going through a separation,...
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 18, 20215 min read
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Surviving being Exes in Lockdown Together
As New Zealand goes into lockdown again, not everyone is happy about who they are sharing their bubble with, particularly those whose...
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 18, 20217 min read
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Progressing in Your Family Law Case when the World is at Standstill
Let me guess – you were tracking along in your separation but now feel any progress has hit a standstill as we enter another lockdown....
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 18, 20214 min read
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Keeping Yourself Covered - Helping your Child Buy a Home
Miranda and Simon’s daughter, Miria, is a very fortunate young person. Miria is about to achieve what we are told is the unachievable in...
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 16, 20213 min read
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"I've been paying Child Support but I don't think I am the Dad!"
“I’ve been paying Child Support but I don’t think I am the dad". My client, Carl, had been paying child support for quite a number of...
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 9, 20212 min read
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Who Pays Child Support when a Child is Adopted?
A reader of this blog asked whether he’d still be required to pay child support for his child if that child was adopted by the child’s...
Selina-jane Trigg
Aug 3, 20212 min read
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Dividing Up Your Kiwisaver or Superannuation on Separation
Ngaire was one unhappy woman. Her friend had warned her that she was about to lose half her carefully squirelled away Kiwisaver and...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jul 26, 20213 min read
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Keeping Yourself Covered - When Your Parents Help You Buy a Home
Rebecca was struggling – she was facing all the usual challenges of a being a first-time mother to a three months old baby. She was also...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jul 19, 20215 min read
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"Why is the Date of Our Separation Important?"
Robert and Megan are using the Collaborative Process to work through the legal and financial issues at the end of their marriage. Before...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jul 12, 20214 min read
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The Value of a Valuation
A reader of this blog, who had separated recently from her partner, asked whether she should have the relationship home valued by a...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jul 5, 20213 min read
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"Can She Have our Child Adopted Out?"
Steven called me in a very stressed state. He had split up with his girlfriend, Angela, a few months ago. Angela is pregnant with their...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jun 28, 20213 min read
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My Relationship was Short - Will my Ex Get Half my House?!
I recently wrote about Sean the whirlwind. He wanted an annulment, rather than wait for a divorce, because his marriage ended after only...
Selina-jane Trigg
Jun 21, 20214 min read
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My Marriage was Short - Can I get an Annulment?
When your marriage was short, you may think that an annulment is the way to quickly bring it to an end. However this may not be so easy!
Selina-jane Trigg
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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"I Want to Keep the House!!"
If you own a home, one of the biggest questions going around in your head after separation will likely be “What happens to the house?”....
Selina-jane Trigg
May 31, 20215 min read
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Timing is Everything in Your Separation or Divorce!
Diving from a great height for its pray at over 320 kilometres per hour, the world’s fastest bird is the Peregrine Falcon. I met the...
Selina-jane Trigg
May 24, 20215 min read
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Being All Over the Paperwork in Your Separation!
Paperwork. Ugggh. Is that the reaction you have to it? Or is one of your superpowers relishing pulling information together, tabulating...
Selina-jane Trigg
May 17, 20214 min read
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The 9 Things You Are Most Likely to Miss in Your Property Division
At Family Law Results, we encourage our clients to work with their ex as much as possible to resolve matters in their separation...
Selina-jane Trigg
May 7, 20214 min read
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Dealing with Legal Costs
Understandably one of the first questions I am asked when a prospective client contacts me is “how much is this going to cost?”. Legal...
Selina-jane Trigg
Feb 2, 20215 min read
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Ten Free Things You Can do To Help Resolve Your Family Law Issue
Lonely Planet released a list of the top ten travel things you can do for free which got me to thinking about what ten free things you...
Selina-jane Trigg
Feb 2, 20213 min read
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It’s a Simple Agreement so Why Doesn’t It Feel Simple?
I have lost count of the times I have had a prospective client approach me to help with their relationship property division which they...
Selina-jane Trigg
Feb 2, 20214 min read
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