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Welcoming business partner
Commercial Law

Characteristics of a Successful Business Partner 

A lawyer’s perspective on whether you should do business with friends and family. There’s a good reason why most people warn against this practice. This article explains why, and what the characteristics of a good partner are that you should be looking for.

Divorce and child custody
Family Law

Divorce: Best Interest of the Child?

When it comes to divorce, the modern parent recites “the best interest of the child” almost as a mantra, without most of them appreciating what it means. We unpack the concept from a legal perspective

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Family Law

Family Law Services

Family Law is a phrase that is commonly used when referring to the legal field that regulates and resolves family relationships and disputes and, a family attorney is similarly an attorney that specialises in assisting parties to regulate and resolve their family relationships and disputes, even by referring these matters to court on behalf of their clients.

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Family Law

A Guide to Surviving Divorce

Divorces are generally characterized by the absence of communication, financial insecurity, feelings of loss, and above all, high incidents of overt conflict. To make matters worse, the parties will now have to immerse themselves in legal proceedings for which they neither have the emotional appetite nor the required experience. This is your guide to Surviving Divorce.

Family Law

Spousal Maintenance in South Africa

Spousal maintenance is the obligation to provide a spouse or previous spouse with housing, food, clothing, education, and even medical care or at least contribute to such spouse’s living expenses.

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Criminal Law

Domestic Violence – can the law help you?

The Domestic Violence Act introduced a user-friendly mechanism to protect victims in the form of an application for a protection order. Any person who believes that he/she may be the victim of domestic violence may approach the magistrates’ court in his/her area for assistance.

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Family Law

Interim Maintenance

Spouses are, more often than not, left in a financial lurch during divorce proceedings, which as we all know, may take months or even years

Marriage proposal
Family Law

Marriages Including the Acrual System

Prospective spouses have an option to choose between two different variants of this system namely either “Out of Comunity of property with the inclusion of the Accrual System” or “Out of Community of Property with the exclusion of the Accrual System”