Facing the maintenance court process in South Africa can feel overwhelming, especially for a parent who has never dealt with the courts before. The system is built to be used…
Separating parents facing a dispute over their children often feel overwhelmed. They worry about where their child will live and how decisions will be made going forward. A child custody…
When a marriage breaks down, one of the most stressful questions couples face is who gets to stay in the family home. Spousal evictions are often misunderstood. One partner assumes…
Searching for a parenting plan template South Africa parents can simply fill in and sign seems like the fastest way to settle care and contact arrangements. In practice, a generic…
When a parent or former spouse who owes maintenance leaves South Africa, the person relying on that money often assumes the court order will simply follow them. It doesn’t. A…
Anyone who has spent time in a family law practice will have noticed the same pattern repeat itself: it is usually the wife, not the husband, who walks in to…
Facing a legal dispute for the first time can feel overwhelming, mostly because the language used to describe it is unfamiliar. The litigation process in South Africa follows a fairly…
Typing “divorce attorney near me” into a search bar usually produces a wall of directory listings, star ratings and paid adverts. What it rarely produces is a straight answer about…
For years, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has been championed as the primary mechanism to alleviate the severe backlog within South Africa’s civil justice system. In principle, mediation is an excellent instrument, allowing two disputing parties to sit down with an impartial third
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For decades, the “No Accrual” clause in an Antenuptial Contract was the final word in South African divorce law. If you signed it, you were stuck with it. It didn’t matter if you stayed home to raise children while your spouse built
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