Elizabeth Mackie is upset over the Maori Land Court changing the site of her home from general title to Maori land and reducing the size of her property without her consent.
The saga which led to the land status change started in 1991 when Steven Walters applied to the court for partition of land held by his whanau in Hailes Rd, Whananaki.
The land bordered a house on a 3210sq m section with a general title owned by Elizabeth's grandmother, Rewa Mackie, who in 1992 consented to a boundary adjustment to her section being included in the partition application as it had been found her house was encroaching on a neighbouring property.
Rewa Mackie died in 1996 and her property title was transferred to Elizabeth in 2007. In the meantime, Mr Walters' application had been dismissed in 2001 for want of prosecution, but was reinstated in 2006.
And in 2009 Judge Andrew Spencer ordered the partitions sought 18 years earlier, changing the Mackie title to Maori freehold land so he could adjust its boundary, which reduced the size of the block by 350sq m. The judge said in his order that if the owner of the block applied to restore the general status within 12 months, the $62 fee would be waived.