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It is possibly best to execute a separate will in each jurisdiction where one’s estate may have to be administered. (Flickr)
ANDERSON AND ANOTHER V DU PLESSIS N O AND OTHERS

Sorting out estates and wills in different countries is a tricky business

It is possibly best to execute a separate will in each jurisdiction where one’s estate may have to be administered

  • Karel Kogler
7 min read
The policy prohibits consensual sexual intimacy in court buildings and discourages romantic relationships between members of the judiciary.
COURT

Justice delayed, grief denied: When the courts fail the bereaved

The case is postponed and delayed for numerous reasons, which means we are fighting to be heard

  • Orateng Lepodise
4 min read
When a person dies intestate then conflict, distress and litigation can arise.
COURT

No Will. No clarity. Plenty heartache

Legal and emotional complications arise when someone dies without a will and no clear evidence of ‘life partnership’

  • Loraine Strydom & Kaamilah Paulse
11 min read
A will may, for example, specify that the testator bequeaths his immovable property (for instance his residential property) in equal shares to his two children, subject to a lifelong usufruct in favour of his wife.
OPINION

Choose the words in your will carefully, especially when bequeathing property to more than one heir

The Hart v Hart case considers usufruct or right of his wife to use the property the husband left to his sons

  • Karel Kogler
7 min read
CAPITAL LEGACY
Video

Where there’s no will, there’s drama!

With no will and no clear wishes, this leaves the door open for drama, drama, drama

  • Special Reports
2 min read
‘Vat and sit’: Men are the ones who benefit from domestic partnerships and have little motivation to enter into marriage. However, the constitutional court (below) recently ruled that opposite-sex life partners may inherit from their deceased partner’s estate. (IVASHstudio/Shutterstock & Madelene Cronjé)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Apex court judgment enables opposite-sex life partners to inherit intestate

Constitutional court ruling enables people in opposite-sex life partnerships to inherit from their deceased partner, even if they haven’t left a valid will

  • Mandi Mudarikwa, Charlene May and Qiqa Nkomo
7 min read
Former president Nelson Mandela and ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
GRACA MACHEL

Winnie gets nothing from Mandela will

Former president Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been left out of the will of the former statesman.

  • Sapa
5 min read