Family: Sperm donor has right to see daughter – ruling
In a victory for unconventional families, a sperm donor has found solace in being granted permission to see his daughter after a...
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- Jun 20
Parental Responsibilities and Rights - Care and Contact (Applications in terms of Section 23 of the Children’s Act)
Parental responsibilities and rights encompass a broad spectrum of obligations, privileges, and duties designed to safeguard the...
- Jun 20
MAINTENANCE OF MINOR CHILDREN
The issue of child maintenance is regulated by the Maintenance Act 99 of 1998. Both parents of a child have the duty to support their...
- Jun 20
Hiding Assets in a Trust during Divorce
In the P A F v S C F (788/2020) [2022] ZASCA 101 (22 June 2022) case, a wealthy Durban businessman’s was found that he had tried to hide...
- Jun 20
The validity of a verbal Antenuptial Contract (ANC)
There is a common presumption that an Ante Nuptial Contract must be registered for it to be valid, and that it either must be entered...
- Jun 20
Criminal: Ex-employee gets extortion plot sentence reduced
McDonald’s has thwarted an extortion plot by a former SA employee Clement Seothaeng who threatened to tarnish the company’s reputation...
- Jun 12
Judiciary: PP releases damning report on GBV failings
The Office of the Public Protector has released a damning report on the support given to victims of gender-based violence (GBV) by the...
- May 31
Property: Resident succeeds in garage door dispute
A resident of a Johannesburg housing estate was so determined to keep his mirror-finish garage door that he dragged his homeowners'...
- May 21
Delict: R7m damages for child with burn injuries
The Limpopo Education Department will have to pay nearly R7m in damages to the mother of a five-year-old child who suffered such severe...
- May 16
A Cautionary Tale in Legal Proceedings
In the recent case of M.N v A.L.N (094387-23) 2024 ZAGPPHC 402 (22 April 2024), the court looked at a Rule 43 application initiated by...
- May 15
Judiciary: Late judgments still slowing delivery of justice
Some 236 judgments have been outstanding for at least six months in courts across the country. A GroundUp report says this is according...
- May 14
Litigation: Husband thwarts wife over right to legal counsel
A Cape Town woman's successful bid to have her husband involuntarily sent to a drug rehabilitation facility has been set aside in the...
- May 13
Family: Judge picks out magistrate in 'toxic' divorce action
A pre-divorce maintenance fight between a magistrate and his police captain wife reached such toxic levels that a Western Cape High Court...
- Mar 19
Family: High Court revokes fraudulent divorce
A woman (67) who was not aware that she was fraudulently divorced from her estranged husband, who tried to evict her from her home, had...
- Mar 13
Family: Judge denies wife 'interim meal ticket'
Interim maintenance pending a divorce was not created to give an interim meal ticket to an applicant who quite clearly at the divorce...
- Mar 11
Property: Hidden house defects prove costly for seller
Selling a house with defects such as dampness in the walls – without disclosing it and covering it up with paint and filler – can have...
- Feb 29
Deciphering Divorce: A Rule 43 Ruling on Maintenance and Legal Costs
The recent ruling in the case of M Q v V S (0221062023) 2024 ZAGPJHC 188, delivered on 23 February 2024, sheds light on the intricate...
- Feb 27
Family: Husband cannot escape spousal maintenance – ruling
A husband has been ordered by Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Acting Judge Shaida Mohamed to pay his estranged wife R18 000 for spousal...
- Feb 22
Workplace: Load shedding 'joke' costs worker his job
A recent case before the CCMA – National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa obo Mahlangeni v Ford Motor Company SA (Pty) Ltd (2023) 32...
- Feb 20
Family: Judge takes 'middle road' in Rule 43 application
In Rule 43 applications, there are often many more versions a court has to consider; especially regarding children. A Pretoria News...
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