The court can hear more than one application at the same time if they are all about the same child or young person. You might have an application for a care or protection order, or an application to change or stop an order that is already in place under the Oranga Tamariki Act, or an application under Part 3A. The court can also hear these applications with any applications under the Adoption Act 1955, the Care of Children Act 2004, the Family Proceedings Act 1980, or the Family Violence Act 2018 if they are all about the same child or young person. The court makes this decision to hear the applications together. This can happen even if the applications are also about other people. The goal is to make things easier for the child or young person by dealing with all the applications at the same time.