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Exploring universal partnerships and putative marriages as tools for awarding partnership property in contemporary family law
(2016)
Following upon the Supreme Court of Appeal's judgment in Butters v Mncora 2012 4 SA 1 (SCA), which broadened the criteria and consequences of universal partnerships in cohabitation relationships, this article investigates ...
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part I: The limits of the cohabitation and marriage based models
(PER / PELJ, 2018)
The democratic Constitutional dispensation has led to the gradual extension of spousal duties of support to unmarried couples who hitherto could not legally claim support from their partners or from third parties who had ...
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part 2: Developing customary and common law and circumventing the volks judgment
(PER / PELJ, 2018)
Part I of this two-part article argued that post-constitutional developments of the right to support have excluded the largest and most vulnerable sector of South African women – African women in invalid customary marriages ...