Parental Alienation Syndrome or Parental Alienation (“PA”) is a very tricky problem in modern day families and has become a rising issue in divorce matters. It is a grave concern for many Courts around the world in custody or contact disputes. Although there is no legal specificity on it, it was coined by psychiatrist in the 1980’s known as Richard Gardner
Rule 43 of the High Court Rules allow for parties who are engaged in pending divorce proceedings to institute an application in the same Court for interim relief pertaining to aspects of parental rights and responsibilitie
Firstly, PIE is exclusively for housing usage and finds no application to the removal of juristic persons from commercial premises. Secondly, ESTA also very rarely finds application to commercial property usage
This is a novel question as living annuities only become a contentious issue after retirement of a spouse whom is also party to Divorce litigation. A living annuity is defined in the Income Tax Act as –
This is a novel question as living annuities only become a contentious issue after retirement of a spouse whom is also party to Divorce litigation. A living annuity is defined in the Income Tax Act as –
Divorce is never a pleasant experience for anyone. There is no “pleasant divorce.” No, an amicable divorce is not a pleasant divorce. Regardless of how the marriage is dissolved, it brings to an ultimate end a big stage of your life
The ever-present problem of child abduction persists in many countries. “Abductions” has a wide meaning in terms of Child Law to include keeping a child away in another country from a parent who has rights to see his/her child. South Africa became a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction on 1 October 1997 (“the Convention”). Prior to the Convention, even if a parent had a court-ordered right to a child, it was exceptionally difficult to enforce that right outside of the Country which granted the order, being it of ‘access’ or ‘custody
I am poet and I know it! Although South Africa is still under a soft lockdown, the economy is slowly progressing towards a market in motion.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience for anyone. There is no “pleasant divorce.”
Briefly put, force majeure is a Latin legal term which refers to a specific incident that occurs which is uncontrollable and usually unforeseeable (also known as an Act of God or casus fortuitus)
