Friday, 27 February 2026
Chair
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 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
How to Draft and Advise on s21A Agreements
- Drafting checklist
- Drafting issues for addressing disclosure shortcomings
- Drafting options for dealing with assets in trusts and companies (eg third party ratification options)
- Certification requirements: What are your obligations?
Presented by Matthew Peploe, Partner, Harkness Henry and Jessie Sanders, Associate, Harkness Henry
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key drafting and advisory considerations when preparing s21A agreements in family law matters
- Examine disclosure issues, certification obligations and practical strategies for dealing with trusts, companies and third-party interests
Presenters
Jessie Sanders, Associate, Harkness Henry
Jessie works in the Estates, Family and Trust Team at Harkness Henry. She specialises in the area of relationship property and also advises on estates and other family matters. She has more than 15 years’ experience working in most areas of Family Law, having previously worked under Rhonda Evans in Auckland. Jessie likes working with clients and colleagues in a collaborative way to reach resolution of matters without the need for Court intervention where possible. Jessie’s work is heavily focused on drafting both contracting out agreements and separation and relationship property agreements.
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree
Helen 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.
Matthew Peploe, Partner, Harkness Henry
Matthew leads Harkness Henry’s Estates, Family and Trust team. He specialises in helping individuals and families manage the complexities of family property – from estate planning, trust management and navigating the division of property following separation. He has particular expertise in managing the complexities that arise when trust law and relationship property law intersect.
