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Same Sex Female Couple With Baby Daughter In Sling Opening Front Door Of Home
Family Law

Legal Guide To: Same Sex Partnerships and Marriages

The changing social landscape of South Africa led to piecemeal extensions of the reciprocal rights and obligations of life partners, including the introduction of implied “partnership agreements” or universal partnerships, which posed an even greater threat to life-partners, specifically those who never actually intended to participate in a communal estate.

A same sex couple, two women posing with their weimeranar pedigree dog between them.
Family Law

Cohabitation or Living Together

Concubines, cohabitation, or “living together” arrangements are on the increase in modern societies, where most individuals choose not to conclude and register a civil union or enter into a marital relationship.
The reasons for these decisions vary from individual to individual, but can in most cases be ascribed to the individual’s fear of subjecting his/her estate to division at the termination of the civil union or marriage.