‘In 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared [gender-based violence (GBV)] South Africa’s second pandemic and noted that it needed to be taken as seriously as the coronavirus. Already named the “rape […]
Read moreM v M (SCA) (unreported case no 022/2022, 26-5-2023) (Mbatha JA (Molemela, Meyer and Matojane JJA and Siwendu AJA concurring)) In terms of s 9 of the Divorce Act 70 […]
Read moreGR v RR (GP) (unreported case no 38304/21, 21-2-2023) (Noko AJ) In GR v RR the Gauteng Division of the High Court ordered that pending a divorce, the respondent continue […]
Read moreBy Mmathabiso Khalema Holmes JA in S v Snyman 1968 (2) SA 582 (A) likened complainants in sexual assault cases to accomplices in crime and described them as having a […]
Read moreIt is a requirement in divorce proceedings that the party instituting the divorce action should attribute reasons for the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. Adultery and infidelity are common grounds […]
Read moreI found it disheartening and unjust that my female clients married by antenuptial contract out of community of property involved in a divorce action had no proprietary claim against the […]
Read moreSection 18(a) of the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 (the Act), expressly excludes non-patrimonial damages suffered by a spouse during the marriage from forming part of the joint estate. […]
Read moreIn the case of Z v Z 2022 (5) SA 451 (SCA), the applicant, Mrs Z (the mother) married the respondent Mr Z (the father) on 10 January 1995, and […]
Read moreIn my observations of maintenance courts, I observed that maintenance officers opt for the discharge of maintenance orders when minor children turn 18 years old and are deemed as young […]
Read moreThis article discusses the way some presiding officers – in various divisions of the High Court and different magistrates’ courts – adjudicate unopposed divorce proceedings and unnecessarily remove matters from […]
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