It is second time lucky for a mother who had abducted her daughter (4) from Luxembourg, where she and the child’s father lived, and...

The government has claimed that backlogs at the country’s 15 Master’s Offices have been ‘reduced significantly’, with progress having...

As former President Nelson Mandela’s family fights to stop the sale of some of his most prized possessions from his home in Houghton, the...

Freedom of testation is one of the founding principles of the South African law of testate succession. Freedom of testation is defined by...

When does a parent’s duty to financially support a child end? It is common in law that both biological parents have the duty to maintain...

A will is a specialized document, which should reflect one’s wishes as to the distribution of his/her assets after their death. A will...

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula recently confirmed that South Africa would get new driver’s licence cards that are aligned with...

Businesses are joining the fight against the South African Local Government Association (Salga), which is trying to get a court order to...

From time to time, it happens that a married couple have an Antenuptial Contract (ANC) that they signed when they got married and now...

The Constitutional Court has ruled (five judges to four) against awarding constitutional damages to about 130 residents of an informal...

The controversy surrounding Miss SA Lalela Mswane participating in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel may have cooled slightly, but...

The legal dispute over who will succeed the late King Goodwill Zwelithini as monarch of the Zulu nation will only be argued next year....

Actress and businesswoman Amanda du Pont has served podcast series host Macgyver Mukwevho, popularly known as MacG, with court papers...

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that a final decision on the future of e-tolls will be announced in the budget speech in February....

The SA Medical Association has called for the establishment of specialized medical courts to deal with medico-legal cases. The Star...

Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius was transferred from the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre in Gauteng to St Albans Correctional...

A woman whose husband divorced her after 35 years of marriage lost her legal bid not to share her pension of more than R2.84m with him,...

Ntombekhaya Maclean, the widow of former Buffalo City Metro Mayor Sindisile Maclean, is faced with a formidable legal bill after Eastern...

Before the introduction of the Divorce Act, a forfeiture order was based on the principle that no one ought to benefit financially from a...

Prescription is a legal principle in terms of which a debtor’s liability to pay an outstanding debt is extinguished after the passing of...