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Defying a court order regarding parental rights may result in jail time

12 February 2024,  Rudi Pitts

A divorce, by its very nature, may be an acrimonious process that is faced by many people.

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Can an unmarried father register a child under his surname?

15 November 2021

I’m the father of a newborn daughter. The mother, to whom I’m not married, disappeared immediately after birth leaving me... as sole parent of my daughter. Because I don’t know where the mother is I cannot get the mother’s consent. Without this consent Home Affairs does not want to register my daughter under my surname. I have no idea what to do now. Can you help?

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Curatorship = A Relationship of Great Trust

01 September 2023,  Corné Nunns, Theresa Tannous

With all the vitamins we take in on a daily basis and medical advances happening every day, we tend to... live longer

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Both Spouses Liable For Child Maintenance

04 August 2020,  Lefevré Joubert

Even the rich feel the pinch of the economic impact of Covid-19, as a mother of two small children discovered... in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria)

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No Will = Intestate Succession

05 September 2019

The unfortunate tendency amongst the public at large, when trying to draft a Last Will and Testament themselves, in order... to have some sort of peace of mind when it comes to the devolution of their world-wide belongings, often has devastating consequences for their loved ones

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The struggle of the surviving spouse in Muslim marriages.

22 March 2018

In South Africa women married in terms of Islamic Law (Shari’ah) does not have the necessary protection, as a marriage... as such is not recognised in South Africa.

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Is spanking your child unlawful?

08 March 2018

I saw it reported in the news recently that spanking your child has finally been criminalised. Is this true? Will... this not result in overloading our justice system even more than it already is?

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My kind se biologiese vader versuim om sy verpligtinge in terme van die Onderhoudsbevel na te kom – Watter remedies het ek tot my beskikking?

03 May 2017

Dit kom algemeen voor dat met die skikkingsonderhandelinge by egskeiding kom die partye ooreen wat betref die onderhoud ten opsigte... van die minderjarige kinders gebore uit die huwelik, na afloop van die egskeiding.  

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