Making parenting orders work

63 Purpose and overview of sections 64 to 80
  • (1) The purpose of sections 64 to 80 is to provide to the court, and to parties to a parenting order, a range of options for making the order work.

    (2) To that end, sections 64 to 80

    • (a) provide for the parties to request counselling to resolve a dispute over observing and carrying out the order:

    • (b) provide for the court to make orders of various kinds, or to respond in various other ways, if a dispute over contravention of a parenting order is not resolved by the parties themselves:

    • (c) make it an offence for a party to the parenting order to intentionally—

      • (i) contravene the order; or

      • (ii) prevent compliance with the order:

    • (d) make it an offence to knowingly resist or obstruct the execution of—

      • (i) a warrant to enforce the role of providing day-to-day care for, or an order for contact with, a child; or

      • (ii) a warrant relating to preventing removal of a child from New Zealand:

    • (e) make it an offence to knowingly fail or refuse to afford immediate entrance to (all or a part of) any premises to a person executing a warrant of that kind:

    • (f) make it an offence in certain circumstances to take or attempt to take a child out of New Zealand.