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Here’s a short guide to help ensure that your documents for use outside South Africa are legally valid.
We outline the main features of the administration of a deceased estate, as well as the legal aspects involved.
New regulation coming into effect on 25 February 2019 makes it more difficult and expensive to replace lost title deeds.
In the case of a life partner who is a foreign citizen, you can apply for a spousal visa when you’re in a permanent relationship or married to a South African Citizen or a foreigner that has a permanent residency permit in South Africa. This is where a Spousal Affidavit will be necessary to process your application.
Because it’s important to have your prenuptial contract in place prior to getting married, well help you understand the details and benefits of the different types of ante nuptial contacts, and the benefits of each.
Buying into any form of community scheme means binding yourself to comply with all the scheme’s rules and regulations. Read and understand these rules before you buy - our courts will usually hold you to them.
But not all rules are legally enforceable, and there’s a strong warning for security estates in a recent High Court case where estate speed limits and restrictions on the movement of domestic employees were challenged and found wanting.
Dismissal from employment is a drastic remedy, and not lightly upheld by our courts. But where an employee breaches his/her general duty to act loyally, honestly and in their employers’ best interests, it’s certainly on the table.
We discuss a case in which a municipal employee with 29 years of service was found guilty of a conflict of interest involving his wife’s and brother’s business links to the municipality. His fate is a timely warning to employees to follow Benjamin Franklin’s advice that “honesty is the best policy”.
Delay suing your debtor for too long and you lose your right to claim forever. That’s the practical effect of our law of prescription, and it’s like throwing money away. It’s also totally avoidable.
But what if you didn’t know you had a claim in the first place? A recent judgment from the highest court in the land – our Constitutional Court – warns that what counts is whether your lack of knowledge is a case of factual ignorance, or a case of ignorance of the law. It’s the source of your ignorance that counts; and not managing that can cost you a lot of money…
Let’s look at a recent High Court case in which a property seller sued a trustee personally for R2m. The trustee, it turned out, had no authority to sign the sale agreement alone, causing the sale to collapse.
What steps should trustees take to protect themselves from personal liability, and what steps should sellers and buyers take to protect their positions when contracting with trusts?
Read on for the answers…
There are many benefits to the “buy and build” option when you decide to buy a house, but they come with some important cautions.
One of them is that buyers who fail to build on their plots by deadline risk penalty levies and/or buy-back (retransfer) clauses. We discuss a recent SCA case illustrating both the risk to buyers of a buy-back clause, and the need for developers to beware of losing their claims through prescription.