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03/01/2022

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/victory-for-women-as-concourt-rules-those-in-long-term-relationships-can-inherit-from-partners-estate-20220101

The Constitutional Court has given women in long-term heterosexual relationships the right to inherit and claim maintenance from the estates of their partners after their deaths.

27/07/2018

Validity of Polygamous Customary Marriages By: Allen West Ever since the promulgation of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 120 of 1998, (the Act) namely 15 November 2000, uncertainty prevailed as to what requirements must be adhered to for the validity of a polygamous customary marriage co...

02/05/2017

Info for the day:
Many banks and other institutions offer to assist their clients make a will, they tend to persuade the clients to appoint the institution as executor. However, especially for smaller estates, this is often not advisable. Often it is better to appoint one of the beneficiaries as executor of the will. Such executor can then appoint an attorney to look after the legal formalities and negotiate a fee for this. When the estate is under a certain amount, the figure being published in the Government Gazette, its administration is greatly simplified.

01/05/2017

Legal trivia for the day: Actio de Pauperie
An owner of a domestic animal can be sued for damage caused by the animal where the animal acts "contrary to the nature of its kind" in other words while not acting as a well behaved animal of its species should :-)

23/02/2016

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* 3rd storey apartment
* 1.5 bedroom
* Full bathroom
* Kitchenette
* Lounge / Dining room
* DSTV dish installed
* Walking distance from Pharmavalu Queenscorner , Laerskool Queenswood, Clapham High School Pretoria and Queenswood Catholic Church
* +- 5km from the University of Pretoria

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16/11/2015

29/09/2015

The owner of property is the person in whose name the immovable property is registered in terms of the Deeds Registries Act 47 of 1973. There are instances, however, where you can totally or partly own immovable property, without it being registered in your name, or not own property despite it being registered in your name, for example:
-Prescription
-Expropriation
-Marriage
-Declaring the owner insolvent

28/09/2015

"Hive" living

This concept is becoming more popular as prices of homes increase. A possible solution for people who are trying to enter the market is for several generations of the same family to live in a property together. In SA, properties with more than one dwelling on them are becoming highly sought after. Often the parents build "granny flats" on their own property and the children take over the big family home. Crime is also a contributing factor.
Of course this type of living has advantages and disadvantages, but certainly it is a possible way for more people to obtain access the property market.

27/07/2015

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