The Role of Parenting Coordinators versus the Powers of the High Court
Parenting coordination uses a child-centred approach in which a mental health professional or a legal professional both trained in mediation and having experience therein assists high-conflict co-parents in creating parenting plans. This ensures compliance with court...
Beware of the Long Time Child Maintenance Debts take to Prescribe!
Child maintenance is a critical solution in law, it allows for the most basic care for the most helpless in society, our children. Recently, our courts have been called upon to decide how important a debt created by a child maintenance order is, after it hasn’t been...
Surrogacy and the Law in SA
Surrogacy is a method of assisted reproduction where intended parents work with a gestational surrogate who will carry and care for their baby (ies) until birth. The intended parents use surrogacy to start or grow their families when they can’t do so on their...
Prescription of a Judgement Debt – how it can Impact both Your Family and Business
A recent judgement in Arcus v Arcus (1 of 2021) [2022] ZASCA 9 has become the talk of the town precisely because it involved a payment not enforced for over 25 years. Moreover, for arrear maintenance for children who have been long self- supporting. The Supreme Court...
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