Category: Family and Divorce

Separation and divorce produce two disputes at once. There is the legal one, about how assets are divided and what is paid to whom, and there is the human one, about trust, disclosure and what each person believes they are owed. Mediation is the only process that addresses both in the same room.

This section covers full and frank financial disclosure and what South African law actually expects of it, matrimonial property regimes, maintenance, hidden assets and the remedies available when they surface, and the particular considerations that arise where substantial private wealth, a family business or a trust sits inside the estate.

Written for people going through it and for the attorneys advising them.