On 15 July 2009 the Constitutional Court found that widows of polygamous Muslim marriages have the right to claim or inherit from estates of hubands
Act 11 of 2009, gives effect to the decisions of the Constitutional Court in Moseneke and Bhe (and other customary law of succession matters). Amongst
The SCA has ruled that a suicide note was intended to be an amendment of a man’s will Section 2(3) of the Wills Act 7
If you and your partner live together you should consider drafting a life partnership agreement to protect yourselves should your relationship come to an end.
In Hendrik Van der Merwe v Master of the High Court and others the Supreme Court of Appeals decided that an unsigned will was valid.
Couples whose marriages are subject to the accrual system need to give careful consideration to the impact the accrual will have before the terms of
Case about widow who wrote her late husband’s will in her own handwriting The SCA has ruled in favour of a widow who wrote her
I recommend that you have separate offshore wills for every country in which you own offshore assets. The offshore will/s specifically deals with the distribution
A welcome recent amendment to the Estate Duty Act gives spouses access to each other’s estate duty abatements and eliminates the need for the artificial
Mervin Messias explains the general principles A good friend and colleague, Mervin Messias, a doyen of estate planning, explains the principles. The general principles are as
