The 11 Things an Executor Must Do
The administration of a deceased estate is a cloaked and murky process. As laypeople, we may hand over the task to an attorney or bank, wait a long time, see a sizeable fee
15 March 2018 No Comments
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Divorce and the forgotten will
Divorce inevitably affects one’s estate. If you were married in community of property, your joint estate is divided up. If you were married with accrual, some money or property would have changed hands,
15 March 2018 No Comments
Public equality and private sexism?
Is a person making a will entitled to be sexist? That question recently came before the Cape High Court, and the outcome may be surprising. Well over a century ago, a wealthy couple
21 February 2018 No Comments
Cape High Court upholds rights of trans people and their spouses
The Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act was signed into law in 2004. It was a groundbreaking piece of legislation, intended to enable transgender and intersex people to correct their official
20 February 2018 No Comments
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If you have a smartphone, you probably use Whatsapp daily. This handy little app has 1,3 billion monthly active users, but is often controversial – sending your data to Facebook for targeted adverts
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