Contact with your child who lives in another country
What are your rights if you live on one continent and your ex wife (or girlfriend) and your child live on another? In [...]
Contact times with minor children
Although contact times depend on circumstances and the Family Advocate has made these recommendations SUGGESTED AGE APPROPRIATE ACCESS Age of child Frequency and [...]
Can I change my child’s surname?
Q – I am divorced and remarried. My ex-husband has no contact with the minor children and I would like to change their [...]
Altering the surname of a minor
A client asked: My wife and I have been raising her son. The biological father had passed. How can we change his surname [...]
Access to Minor Children
Where parents do not live together, access serves to promote a continuing parental relationship between the non-custodian parent and his or her child [...]
Access to Children
Rights of a parent without custody Access to children A divorced parent who has not been awarded custody of his or her children [...]
Access by someone other than a child’s parents
In principle, anyone may apply for contact with a child, provided that the applicant can show that access would serve the child’s best [...]
Access (contact) to a child by his or her father
If the parents of a marital child do not live together, the non-custodian parent continues to share parental responsibilities and rights and has [...]
Who are guardians and what does guardianship entail?
Guardianship is a parental right and responsibility that a biological parent has with regards to his/her child. It is, amongst others, set out [...]
A Child’s Right to Maintenance – Explained
Written by Talita Erasmus – a practising attorney at Alan José Incorporated. Who can claim maintenance? Every child that is not self-supporting has the right to [...]