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040 _aAFVC
100 _92195
_aTaylor, Nicola J.
245 _aChild participation :
_cNicola Taylor
_bovercoming disparity between New Zealand’s Family Court and out-of-court dispute resolution processes
260 _c2017
_bBrill Online,
500 _aInternational Journal of Children's Rights, 2017, 25(3-4): 658-671
520 _aThis article considers children’s right to participate in the context of private law disputes concerning their post-separation, day-to-day care and contact arrangements. In New Zealand the approach to ascertaining children’s views has been both long-standing and systematic for contested proceedings within the Family Court (via children’s legal representatives and judicial meetings with children). However, major reform of the family justice system in 2014 shifted the emphasis to new out-of-court processes for resolving post-separation parenting arrangements. The reforms were disappointingly silent on the issue of children’s participation in the new Family Dispute Resolution services, particularly mediation. A disparity has thus arisen between opportunities for children’s engagement in New Zealand’s in-court and out-of-court dispute resolution processes. Research evidence and international developments in Australia and England and Wales are reviewed for the guidance they can offer in remedying this in New Zealand and elsewhere. (Author's abstract). Record #5937
650 _aCHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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650 _aCHILDREN
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650 4 _aCONTACT (ACCESS)
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650 _aFAMILY COURT
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650 0 _aFAMILY DISPUTE RESOLUTION
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650 _aFAMILY LAW
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650 _aJUSTICE
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650 _aLAW REFORM
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650 _aSEPARATION
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650 _aYOUNG PEOPLE
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650 5 _aConvention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC)
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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773 0 _tInternational Journal of Children's Rights, 2017, 25(3-4): 658-671
830 _aInternational Journal of Children's Rights
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02503004
_yRead abstract
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_cARTICLE