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Family: Maintenance for child doesn't end at 18 – ruling
A parent’s obligation to financially maintain their children does not stop once the child turns 18 but continues until the child is no...
Oct 22, 2024


Constitutional: Facebook privacy rights case dismissed
The right to privacy where certain information is already in the public domain, against the right to freedom of expression, came under...
Oct 11, 2024


Family: Court intervenes in parental alienation case
In what experts have said is one of the most brutal cases of parental alienation, a KZN High Court (Durban) judge has intervened and...
Sep 26, 2024


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...
Aug 8, 2024


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, 2024


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, 2024


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, 2024


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, 2024


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 20, 2024


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...
Jun 12, 2024


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 31, 2024


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 21, 2024


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 16, 2024


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 15, 2024


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 14, 2024


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...
May 13, 2024


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 19, 2024


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 13, 2024


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...
Mar 11, 2024


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 29, 2024
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