F v G - [1971] NZLR 956

Infants and children — Care and custody — Rights over illegitimate children — Application by father for appointment as guardian in addition to mother — Declaration that father guardian — Welfare of children paramount — Conduct of parents irrelevant except as to welfare of children — Jurisdiction — Order removing proceedings from Magistrate's Court to Supreme Court — Contents of order — Guardianship Act 1968, ss 4, 6, 6A, 23.