{"id":21580,"date":"2020-08-11T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/lawyers-in-new-zealand-report-surge-in-separations-as-a-result-of-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:52:27","slug":"lawyers-in-new-zealand-report-surge-in-separations-as-a-result-of-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21580","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers in New Zealand report surge in separations as a result of Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relationship therapists and lawyers say number of new clients is comparable to the annual post-holiday separation rise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some New Zealand family lawyers have been overwhelmed with enquiries &#8211; and are even turning prospective clients away \u2013 because of an increase in newly-separated couples seeking legal advice after they split during the country\u2019s strict Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having new inquiries daily, certainly more than usual,\u201d said Alissa Bell, a partner at McVeagh Fleming in Auckland, New Zealand\u2019s largest city. \u201cWe often get an increase post Christmas, and it\u2019s similar to that and even above that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/lawyers-in-new-zealand-report-surge-in-separations-as-a-result-of-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relationship therapists and lawyers say number of new clients is comparable to the annual post-holiday separation riseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome New Zealand family lawyers have been overwhelmed with enquiries &#8211; and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions\/21581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}