The Family Court can help with matters relating to:

• family violence
• the care and protection of children and young people
• parenting arrangements
• child support
• separation and divorce
• relationship property (property and assets from a marriage, civil union, or de facto relationship)
• adoption and surrogacy
• will disputes
• the treatment of people held in compulsory care with mental illness, intellectual disability and substance addiction
• managing property and welfare decisions for adults who have lost their mental capacity.

Find a family court

Use the ‘Find us’ search on the Ministry of Justice website:

• Under ‘Court, tribunal or other’, select ‘Family Court’
• Select an ‘Available location’
• Click ‘Search’.

Find us — Ministry of Justice

Part of

District Courts