Detinue and replevin : arresting children to enforce private parenting orders in New Zealand Family Court
Leonetti, Carrie
Detinue and replevin : arresting children to enforce private parenting orders in New Zealand Family Court Carrie Leonetti - University of Miami, 2023 - University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review .
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, 2023, 30(2): 94-127
This Article argues that the seizures of children authorized by the New Zealand Care of Children Act to enforce private custody orders are unlawful and unjustifiable arrests. These seizures lack in either the substantive limitations of necessity or the procedural protections that should attach to such an intrusive and violent restriction on children’s liberty. It argues that their issuance violates children’s rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and international human rights law. It canvasses the history of these arrest provisions and argues that they function as a mechanism for detinue and replevin of children, harkening back to a time when children’s status under the law was that of chattel. It documents how these arrest warrants have increasingly played a central role in the broader problem of the use of Family Court processes by family violence perpetrators to extend their coercive control over their victims and argues that these warrants have become a tool of social entrapment for victims. (Author's abstract). Record #8168
CARE OF CHILDREN ACT 2004
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
COERCIVE CONTROL
FAMILY COURT
FAMILY LAW
FAMILY VIOLENCE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LAW REFORM
PERPETRATORS
SEPARATION
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA
CANADA
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES
Detinue and replevin : arresting children to enforce private parenting orders in New Zealand Family Court Carrie Leonetti - University of Miami, 2023 - University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review .
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, 2023, 30(2): 94-127
This Article argues that the seizures of children authorized by the New Zealand Care of Children Act to enforce private custody orders are unlawful and unjustifiable arrests. These seizures lack in either the substantive limitations of necessity or the procedural protections that should attach to such an intrusive and violent restriction on children’s liberty. It argues that their issuance violates children’s rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and international human rights law. It canvasses the history of these arrest provisions and argues that they function as a mechanism for detinue and replevin of children, harkening back to a time when children’s status under the law was that of chattel. It documents how these arrest warrants have increasingly played a central role in the broader problem of the use of Family Court processes by family violence perpetrators to extend their coercive control over their victims and argues that these warrants have become a tool of social entrapment for victims. (Author's abstract). Record #8168
CARE OF CHILDREN ACT 2004
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
COERCIVE CONTROL
FAMILY COURT
FAMILY LAW
FAMILY VIOLENCE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LAW REFORM
PERPETRATORS
SEPARATION
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA
CANADA
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES