Rotorua family lawyers are making a plea to families going through custody disputes or who have shared care arrangements to put their differences aside for the sake of their children and the country.
Family lawyer Prue McGuire said the lawyers had this week met to put out a joint statement they hoped would help those struggling with self-isolation rules in the face of custody disputes or court orders.
"Where there is a shared care arrangement and the families are in different towns and areas, the children should not move between those homes," the lawyers' joint statement said.
They said generally children in the same communities could continue to go between their homes, unless there was a risk, such as the child or a person in the home they were going to or home they had been in had been overseas in the last 14 days or had been in close contact with someone who was currently being tested for Covid-19 or had been in close contact with someone who had the virus or was being tested.
