Monday, 25 August 2025
*Original Content was created in November 2024
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Learning Objectives:
- Understand legal pathways to claim occupation rent when s 18B PRA doesn’t apply
- Explore practical issues when pursuing claims under the Family Proceedings Act, Property Law Act, or Equity
Chair
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree Lawyers
Occupation Rent Where the Home is Trust-Owned: What to do When s 18B PRA Doesn’t Apply
- Calculating occupation rent in the context of relationship breakdowns under s18B PRA
- When occupation rent has been awarded in respect of trust-owned property under
- The Family Proceedings Act 1980
- The Property Law Act 2007
- Equity
- The practicalities of bringing these less-known claims, including in light of s 4 PRA and the Trusts Act 2019
Presented by Niccola Davies, Associate, and Lauren Aspin, Associate, Morgan Coakle
Presenters
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree LawyersHelen is a director of McWilliam Tyree Lawyers, having been an Associate and then Senior Associate at McWilliam Rennie (predecessor of McWilliam Tyree) since 2014. Helen has practiced all areas of family law since 2003. As well as acting for clients in all areas of family law, Helen has undertaken regular appointments as lawyer for child and as lawyer for subject persons under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act since 2008. Helen is also a contributing author for the legal publication “Brookers Family Law on Family Property”, writing about relationship property agreements (separation agreements, contracting-out agreements, and setting aside those agreements). She also contributed significantly to McWilliam Rennie’s submissions to the Law Commission in relation to their review of relationship property and then succession law. She has presented seminars for Legalwise on a range of relationship property matters, relationship property law developments and on the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act. Helen Tyree graduated from Otago University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Laws and from Brunel University of London in 2003 with a Master of Law in Child Law and Policy (with distinction).
Niccola Davies, Associate, Morgan Coakle
Niccola is an associate in the family law team at Morgan Coakle Lawyers in Auckland. She practises in all areas of family law with a focus on complex relationship property and trust claims, and family protection matters.
Lauren Aspin, Associate, Morgan Coakle
Lauren is an associate in the litigation and family law teams at Morgan Coakle in Auckland. Lauren practises across all areas of family law with a particular interest in complex relationship property and trust disputes, parenting matters and advising clients regarding asset protection. She represents clients before the Family Court and High Court, at mediation, and in Collaborative Resolution processes. Lauren was recognised by Doyles Guide as a Family & Relationship Property Law Rising Star.
