Sinazo Mau-Mau

Attorney, Litigation Department

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Somerset West

sinazo@mblh.co.za

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Sinazo is an Attorney at Miller Bosman Le Roux Attorneys and specialises in general litigation. Her practice encompasses of family law matters, children’s court matters, labour law disputes, contractual disputes and evictions.

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Sinazo completed her LLB degree in 2020 from the University of the Western Cape. She started at Miller Bosman Le Roux Attorneys in 2021 as a candidate legal practitioner in litigation department and was admitted as an Attorney in June 2023. Sinazo has litigated various disputes in different areas of law. She has assisted clients in family matters which include divorces; maintenances; care and contact applications. She also represents clients in contractual disputes; labour law disputes; evictions. Outside litigation, Sinazo is also passionate about the administration of estates. She has assisted clients to report estates in the Master’s office and has attended to the admiration of both testate and intestate estates.

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LLB

Admissions

Attorney of the High Court of South Africa

Community Involvement

Street Law Society (UWC)

Administration of Estates

Child Rights

Debt Collection and Recovery

Dispute Resolution

Divorce and Maintenance

Labour and Employment

Understanding Estate Massing in Community of Property Marriages

05 July 2024, Sinazo Mau-Mau

In community of property marriages, spouses often combine their estates, or mass their estates, to ensure that certain assets go... to specific beneficiaries. This is done while still ensuring the surviving spouse's welfare and protecting assets from being misused after the first spouse passes away. This article will explain the necessary conditions for this estate combining process.

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How to Proceed with Divorce When Your Spouse Cannot Be Found

06 March 2024, Sinazo Mau-Mau

Rule 44(1) of the Uniform Rules of Court states that documents requesting a divorce or marriage annulment must be personally... delivered to the person it concerns unless the court allows a different service. But what if the sheriff can't deliver the documents because the person has disappeared or moved abroad? This article will explain alternative service methods the court might approve when personal service isn't feasible.

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Is It Possible to Override a Registered Antenuptial Contract with a Postnuptial Agreement?

05 December 2023, Sinazo Mau-Mau

Before the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 (MPA) was introduced, matrimonial property law in South Africa was governed by... the immutability principle. This principle dictated that the property regime chosen by a couple at the time of their marriage could not be altered afterward. The case of Honey v Honey in 1992 (93 SA 609 (W)) reinforced this, stating that under common law, spouses couldn't modify their matrimonial property system through an agreement. Any contract attempting to change the prenuptial agreement was considered void and unenforceable. However, the introduction of the MPA softened this rigid stance by providing ways for couples to change their matrimonial property system after marriage.

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Can a Testator Disinherit Their Surviving Spouse?

03 October 2023, Sinazo Mau-Mau

The Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act 27 of 1990 permits surviving spouses to seek maintenance from the deceased spouse's estate... upon the marriage ending due to death. This claim lasts until the survivor's death or remarriage and factors in estate value, the survivor's financial circumstances, marriage duration, living standards, and age.

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Intending on buying a state-funded house? Here’s what you need to know

03 August 2023, Sinazo Mau-Mau

The Constitution of South Africa enshrines the right of everyone to have access to adequate housing. This places a mandatory... duty on the state to achieve this right for all South Africans through its available resources. The government introduced the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) as its social housing programme to provide low-income families with sustainable housing. Despite the substantial commitment by the government, there have been cases of illegal sales and fraudulent activities related to state-funded houses. The purpose of this article is to establish whether state-funded houses may be sold.

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Exercise of Rights and Obligations under a Praedial Servitude

08 June 2023, Sinazo Mau-Mau

A servitude is a limited real right which entitles its holder either to the use and enjoyment of another person’s... property or to insist that such other person shall refrain from exercising certain entitlements following from his or her right of ownership over and in respect of his or her property which he or she would have if the servitude did not exist. Pertinent to this article is a praedial servitude which pertains to two pieces of land that are in close proximity to, or next to one another. A praedial servitude constitutes a burden imposed on one piece of land (servient owner) in favour of another piece of land (dominant owner).

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