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Couples wanting to divorce in England and Wales will no longer have to blame the other party when a new law comes into effect in April. Scotland has a different legal system and already had “no-fault” divorce. (When it comes to law, the UK is not one country.) Here in South Africa, there are three […]
Reprinted from iol.com, by Zelda Venter – 2022-01-03 Pretoria – In a victory for couples in a life partnership, the Constitutional Court has confirmed an earlier High Court ruling that if one of the parties dies intestate – without a will – the surviving partner may claim maintenance from their deceased partner’s estate. The court […]
Reprinted from ENCA – 2022-01-05 MADRID – In the case of a divorce, who keeps the family cat or dog? Spain has ruled that, as with children, parents should in some cases share custody. A new law that came into effect on Wednesday recognises pets as “living, sentient beings” for the first time, and not mere […]
Reprinted from iol.com, by Zelda Venter – 2021-12-23 Pretoria – A man who got tired of his “wife” and wanted to evict her from his home got more than he had bargained for after the court ruled that as he was married to her, he could only kick her out of the house if he […]
My husband got a preservation fund after I signed divorce papers. Should I sue him? Reprinted from MoneyWeb, by Eric Jordaan – 2020-12-15 Legal remedies are available, but will require an amended divorce order to include the division of your ex-husband’s pension interest. A reader asks: I signed my divorce papers on September 27, 2020, […]
Moving to another province with your child? We explain the law The past two years have been disruptive, to say the least, and one of the consequences has been “the great resignation”. First identified in the US, but now spanning the globe, the great resignation refers to a large number of people leaving their jobs […]
2021 marks 30 years of Global 16 Days of Activism As long as I’ve been practising law, and as long as I’ve published this blog, I’ve been writing about violence against women (VAW), gender-based violence (GBV), domestic violence, domestic abuse, and a raft of other terms that basically refer to the same thing. Physical violence […]
If you’re a fan of the pop singer Adele, and even if you’re not, you can’t have missed the fact that the 30-year-old has released a new album, called…wait for it…30. And…not exactly a spoiler alert…it’s full of emotion, this time about her recent divorce. Divorce is an emotional business, but it’s also a costly […]
