What you need to know about divorce and your finances If you’re contemplating or going through a divorce, your key concern is extracting yourself from a once-happy situation that has turned at best unproductive and at worst toxic. You want to enable a more life-affirming environment for yourself and your children, if you have them. […]
What does a social worker do? If you are going through a divorce, especially if you have children, there may be a social worker involved in helping you and your partner resolve disputes. Social workers are an important part of the divorce process, particularly when it comes to child care and contact arrangements. Sometimes clients […]
Unpacking the complexities of claiming a share of your member spouse’s pension interest. Reprinted from Moneyweb, by Eric Jordaan – 2022-08-24 Retirement funds and property generally rank as a couple’s most valuable assets and yet, when it comes to divorce, it remains surprising how much time couples spend fighting over the smaller stuff. Further, given […]
An alienated father tells his story. Reprinted from the Mail & Guardian, by Guy Oliver – 2022-08-11 Through an alienated father’s jaundiced eye, Hollywood luminary Brad Pitt — shorn of fame’s vapour trails — is just another frog in the pot warming to the boil for dismemberment by the mother of his children. Pitt and […]
Can spouses evict one another from the marital home? Can one spouse evict the other from the matrimonial home? No. A spouse is not a tenant, even if the marriage is out of community of property and one spouse owns the home outright. Spouses have a duty of support to each other which includes the […]
Can an ex-wife claim maintenance arrears from her ex-husband’s retirement fund? A case came before the Gauteng High Court recently in which a woman had deducted funds from her ex-husband’s retirement funds for child maintenance arrears. The applicant was the ex-husband, who claimed that it was unfair for an application for withdrawal of funds to […]
Reprinted from the Guardian, by Anna Moore – 2022-05-09 Can men who assault or intimidate their partners be taught to respect women? We talk to campaigners and perpetrators – and sit in on one of their classes In this Zoom call, four men are looking at a list of family duties and marking which they […]
Johannesburg High Court rules that mother did not have to give notice before taking money for maintenance arrears Reprinted from GroundUp, by Tania Broughton – 2022-05-06 The Johannesburg High Court has ruled that a mother whose ex-husband owed maintenance payments for their children was entitled to take money from his pension without notice. Judge Tina […]
