Wills - Why they are important and how to make a will

Information from Sorted on why to make a will, and how.

Family Trusts - Pros & cons of setting up a trust

Information on wills and family trusts at Sorted, Commission for Financial Capability.

Making a will and estate administration

The New Zealand Law Society website includes information on wills and family trusts.

Public Trust

The Public Trust provides will and estate-administration services.

Succession to Māori land

 The Māori Land Court website provides information on land succession.

Ballara, Angela. Iwi: the dynamics of Maori tribal organisation from c.1769 to c.1945. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.

Brandts-Giesen, Henry, and Sarah Kelly. 'Recent developments in the law and administrations of trusts in New Zealand'. Trusts & Trustees Volume 24, issue 7 (September 2018): 696–713.

Chevalier-Watts, Juliet, and Sue Tappenden. Equity, trusts and succession. Wellington: Thomson Reuters, 2013.

Chevalier-Watts, Juliet. 'New Zealand and Maori land trusts'. Trusts & Trustees Volume 22, issue 2 (March 2016): 211–226.

Fraser, Lyndon. To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century Christchurch. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.

Little, Heather McCrostie, and Nick Taylor. Issues of New Zealand farm succession: a study of the intergenerational transfer of the farm business: summary of findings and policy implications. Wellington: MAF Policy, 1998.

McAloon, Jim. No idle rich: the wealthy in Canterbury and Otago 1840–1914. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2002.

Patterson, W. M. Law of family protection and testamentary promises. 3rd edn. Wellington: LexisNexis, 2004.

Vennell, C. W. A century of trust: a history of the New Zealand Public Trust Office, 1873–1973. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1973.