Why You Can Ease Up About Your Parenting Plan!
You’re about to sit down with your ex and work out how you will co-parent your children. You may be doing this over a coffee. You may...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Aug 29, 2022
- 7 min
Should I meet with my Ex and a Lawyer?
Tama sounded defensive the moment I answered his call to me. He and his ex, Amy, had separated 6 months ago. Tama didn’t have a lawyer...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Aug 15, 2022
- 5 min
How Can We Have an Amicable Separation?
When you are facing a separation, what lies ahead can seem confusing and very unclear. What should you do first? What are the most...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Aug 8, 2022
- 3 min
Should I Move Out of the Family Home?
Jennifer is planning on leaving her marriage of 15 years to Zayne. She decided to have a consultation with me so that she could get...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jul 11, 2022
- 2 min
Who keeps the Pets in a Separation?
Our pets hold a special place in our hearts and our homes. They become a much loved part of our families. For many, they become akin to a...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Who Keeps the Ring?
Lee and Kelly had been living together for three years when Lee finally took the advice of Beyonce and “put a ring on it”. Kelly was...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Untying the Knot
I received a distraught phone call recently from Ramona. It was Wednesday and she was due to get married on Saturday. The one hitch to...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
Vaccination & the Family Court
As New Zealanders face the challenge of living with Covid-19 in the community and the mandate debate continues, disputes between parents...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
Holiday Sur-Thri-Val After a Separation
I will never forget the time I asked about the holiday plans of a client who was working through her separation. She told me each of her...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Nov 26, 2021
- 5 min
Co-Parenting through the Holidays
The countdown to the holidays is well and truly on! Are you sorted? You may be the type to have your Christmas gifts bought and wrapped,...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Aug 18, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Aug 16, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jul 19, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
"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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jul 5, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Selina-jane Trigg
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
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!
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Selina-jane Trigg
- May 31, 2021
- 5 min
"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?”....
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Selina-jane Trigg
- May 24, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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