Lawyer Application Form
Thank you for your applying with JustFund. Please complete the below form to commence your client's application.
Your First Name
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Your Last Name
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Your Law Firm's Name
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Your Contact Number
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Your email address
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Are you the lawyer with day to day responsibility for the matter?
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What’s the name of the lawyer with day to day responsibility for this matter?
First Name
Last Name
What’s their email address?
Do you confirm that you have obtained your client's instructions to submit this application for funding on their behalf?
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Matter Overview
Your client's first name
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Your client's middle name
Your client's last name
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What's their email address?
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What's their contact number?
What's their date of birth?
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Has your client been known by any other name?
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Your client's former first name
Your client's former middle name
Your client's former last name
What's their contact number?
What's the name of your client's former partner?
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First Name
Middle Name
Last Name
Has their former partner been known by any other name?
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Their former first name(s)
Their former middle name(s)
Their former last name(s)
What's their date of birth?
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Matter Overview
Approximately when was your firm engaged on this matter?
What issues are in dispute between the parties? (select all that may apply)
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Relationship property
Care of children
Family violence
Spousal maintenance
Trust claims
Other
Have legal proceedings commenced in relation to relationship property matters?
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No
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Have the parties been to mediation or Family Dispute Resolution?
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Has the other side made a settlement offer regarding relationship property?
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Funding & Costs
Approximately how much has your client already paid in legal fees and costs associated with their matter?
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How much in outstanding invoices or WIP (if any) does your client have with your firm?
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What is your estimate for the amount of funding required to seek to resolve your client’s matter?
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Procedural Status (Pre-Action)
What documents are available to provide to JustFund to assist in reviewing the application for funding?
Schedule of assets and liabilities
Chronology
Recent correspondence setting out legal issues/claims
Recent settlement offers
Mediation paper
Property or business valuations
Recent mortgage statements
Trust account statement (where proceeds held on trust)
Trust deeds
Expert witness reports
S21 agreement
Please upload a copy of the available documents using the link below. If more convenient, you're welcome to email these documents through separately to clients@justfund.co.nz after you complete this form. Please don't include any pleadings, reports or associated documents filed in respect of proceedings under the Care of Children Act 2004 as these aren't relevant to our relationship property assessment
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Procedural Status (Proceedings Commenced)
What best describes the current procedural status of the matter? (Choose more than 1 if appropriate)
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Initial application filed
Response filed
Preparing valuations and expert report(s)
Interlocutory application(s) filed
Preparing for hearing of interlocutory application(s)
Interlocutory applications heard
Preparing for mediation
Post mediation
Preparing for judicial settlement conference
Post judicial settlement conference
Preparing for final hearing
Other
What is the date of the mediation?
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What is the date of the judicial settlement conference?
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What is the date of the final hearing?
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Please record any backup fixture dates
Are there any third parties to the proceedings?
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Please describe the nature of the third parties.
What documents are available to provide to JustFund in support of the application for funding?
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Initial application/response filed
Affidavits of assets and liabilities
Narrative affidavits
Chronology
Mediation paper
Settlement offers
Property or business valuations
Recent mortgage statements
Trust account statement (where proceeds held on trust)
Expert witness reports
S21 agreement
Please upload a copy of the available documents using the link below. If more convenient, you're welcome to email these documents through separately to clients@justfund.co.nz after you complete this form.
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Issues In Dispute
Are there any concerns that the other party has not fully compiled with their disclosure obligations?
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What disclosure is in issue?
Are you aware of any limitation issues?
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Please detail the nature of the limitation issues.
Did the parties sign a contracting-out agreement under S21 of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976?
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The validity or existence of the agreement is an issue in dispute
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Is there a dispute about whether the relationship qualifies as a de facto relationship (if applicable)?
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Not Applicable
Is there a dispute about the length of the relationship?
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Relationship Property
Is there any real property in the asset pool to be divided between the parties (eg land, family home, investment property)?
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Is your client the registered legal owner of any real property?
Yes, their name is on title of property.
No, the property is not registered in their name.
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Is any relevant real property held on trust?
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Do the parties own a family home?
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Is your client or their former partner in occupation of the family home?
My client is in occupation of the family home
My client's former partner is in occupation of the family home
Both parties are still residing in the family home
Neither party is in occupation of the family home
Have there been any notices of claim filed on real property?
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No
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Does your client have a claim to compensation for an absence of an interest in a family home?
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Does your client's former partner have a claim to compensation for an absence of an interest in a family home?
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Relationship Property Issues
Is there a dispute over what constitutes your client’s separate property or whether their former partner has made contributions to that separate property?
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Is there a dispute over what constitutes your client's former partner’s separate property or whether your client has made contributions to that separate property?
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Is your client claiming an entitlement to compensation for economic disparity?
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Is their former partner claiming an entitlement to compensation for economic disparity?
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Has your client made any contributions to relationship property post-separation?
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Has their former partner made any contributions to relationship property post-separation?
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Has there been a dissipation (or is there a risk of dissipation) of assets post-separation?
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Does your client have any other claim against a trust (such as under s 44C of the PRA, s 182 of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 or in equity)?
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Does your client's former partner have any other claim against a trust (such as under under s 44C of the PRA, s 182 of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 or in equity)?
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Dealings
Has there been a sale of any relationship property?
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Have there been any interim distributions of relationship property?
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Is your client paying any spousal maintenance?
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Is your client receiving any spousal maintenance?
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Source of application
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