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Responsibility to Maintain and Repair Foundations and Boundry Walls in a Sectional Title Scheme

08 June 2023

This article will briefly consider the definitions of common property vis-à-vis sections in terms of the Sectional Titles Schemes Management... Act 8 of 2011 in order to establish who must maintain what in sectional title scheme developments.

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I can no longer afford to pay maintenance, what should I do?

02 November 2022

Many of us are still recovering from the harsh effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of us are faced with... the issue of not being able to meet our financial obligations. One such obligation could be a maintenance order. South African law, imposes harsh sanctions on maintenance debtors who fail to adhere to their maintenance obligations. Therefore, if you ever find yourself in a position where you are no longer able to meet your maintenance obligations, it is imperative to use the avenues available to you in terms of the law.

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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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Do I have to pay maintenance to my spouse when we get a divorce?

03 March 2021,  Darryl Gantana

I am getting a divorce. Do I have to pay spousal maintenance? What are the factors that will be considered... by the court, and under which circumstances will the court grant an order to pay spousal maintenance? 

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High Court finds that heterosexual life partners can inherit from their deceased partner’s intestate estate

03 December 2020

On 28 September 2020, the Cape Town High Court handed down judgment in favour of Ms Bwanya directing that section... 1(1) of the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987 (“the ISA”) is unconstitutional and invalid insofar as it excludes Ms Bwanya, a surviving life partner in a permanent opposite-sex life partnership, from inheriting from her deceased fiancé’s estate.

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A brief analysis of the Constitutional requirement of the “best interest of the child”

29 July 2020

Section 28(2) of the South African Constitution states that a child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter... concerning a child. The South African legislature has adopted various pieces of legislation which gives effect to this constitutional requirement. This article will briefly consider some of these legislative interventions in order to establish what this constitutional right entails and how a child’s best interest should be determined.

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