by Neilsons | Sep 1, 2018 | Afrikaans, English, Family Law
The fees payable to the Master of the High Court in deceased estates, has increased from 1 January 2018. Previously, the maximum amount due to the Master, was R600.00. Now, the maximum amount will be R7000.00. If the value of your estate at the time of death is...
by Neilsons | Jun 18, 2018 | Afrikaans, English
Martin van Staden wrote in a De Rebus article that, insofar as the liberty of the individual is concerned, internet access is certainly a human right. However, for a human right to be of a “human” nature, it must be a universal human right. In other words, it must be...
by Neilsons | Apr 2, 2018 | Afrikaans, English, Social Responsibility
In 2007 a company called Really Useful Investments 219 (Pty) Ltd (RUI) bought a piece of land on the beach, next to the Disa River, in Hout Bay. Thereafter RUI developed the land as a housing estate. In the process, they dumped their rubble into the river. The...
by Neilsons | Jan 29, 2018 | Afrikaans, Child & Spousal Maintenance, Family Law
Michelle Saffer is a newspaper reporter and a single mother. She divorced her husband in 1999. In terms of their court order, the father paid her a monthly lumpsum maintenance for their daughter, out of which she had to pay all her daughter’s costs, including school...
by Neilsons | Oct 16, 2017 | Afrikaans, Divorce, English
A husband in the throes of a bitter divorce action recently learnt the hard way that one should not play games with the Court when it comes to child or spousal maintenance. The High Court had made an interim order that he had to pay maintenance for his wife and...
by Neilsons | Aug 4, 2017 | Afrikaans, English
Tshepo Confidence Mashile, an attorney from Mkhonto & Ngwenya Attorneys wrote an excellent article in the attorneys’ magazine on using emoji and how using an emoji can actually land you in court. He says: “Emoji are the language of our online era, the thumbs-up to...
