How to go about your financial planning so as to maximise the benefits to your spouse, your children and your grandchildren.
Financial Advice
December and January have always been prime months for selling residential property in South Africa, and if you are a “Festive Season Seller”, here are two really important tips for you.
If you plan to marry this Wedding Season, make sure that a high priority item on your Wedding Plan list is to get the legal aspects sorted out before you actually tie the knot.
Lending money or advancing credit to another individual or business carries with it a certain amount of unavoidable risk. But you can minimise that risk…
We share some thoughts on the general principle “costs follow the result” and its limitations, then discuss the three categories of legal costs and what they will mean to you in practice.
It may seem like overkill, and illogical to boot, to insist on a family loan being recorded in a formal contract. But in fact it’s the only logical course of action to take, as we shall find out in the context of a court fight between a daughter and her parents over a R540k “loan”.
Divorce can be a costly and traumatic process, and if you and your ex-spouse are still co-trustees of your family trusts afterwards, you may well find the situation untenable.
Whether you are about to tie the knot or about to divorce, you should know about an important new ruling from the High Court, declaring a section of the Divorce Act to be constitutionally invalid.
A Legacy Letter is a way for you to share your values, life lessons, cherished memories, hopes for your family’s future, and anything else that is really important to you.
The said penalty … was imposed due to the fact that the property was being used in contradiction to its zoning.