How to find the best advocate or attorney for legal services in South Africa?

Finding the best legal practitioners for you is not always straightforward. However, with some research and attention to detail, you will find the right person for the job sooner than later. Advocates and attorneys both assist their clients with legal matters. Legal issues vary, and not all advocates and attorneys do the same type of work. And then again, not all attorneys are the same, and not all advocates are the same. You should be familiar with this if you intend to use the top or best attorney or advocate for your matter.

Type of Attorney in South Africa

When we speak about attorneys, we need to differentiate them from lawyers in general. A lawyer can be someone who works for the government or in a corporation and who only advises on legal issues. They would not represent their employee at work, nor would they ever set foot in a courtroom. However, attorneys, on the other hand, usually represent clients in legal matters. The matter can relate to employment issues, family law issues, or debt collection. Therefore, the distinct difference between an attorney, and a lawyer who is not an attorney, is that the attorney would represent members of the public in legal matters. You also find attorneys who are conveyancers and notaries. They are specialists. Therefore, to obtain the best attorney for you, make sure you know that not all lawyers are attorneys and that not all attorneys do the same work.

Type of Advocates in South Africa

Advocates usually represent clients in legal matters. When you speak about and advocate, you usually refer to matters connected with the Court. You also have an advocate doing office work, but then that type of work can be done by an attorney or lawyer. In South Africa, we have two types of advocates. They are the referral advocate and then the Trust Account Advocate. The Trust Account Advocate can take work directly from members of the public. Basically, the same as an attorney can. The client would pay a deposit into the Trust Account Advocate’s Trust Banking Account. Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf is a Trust Account Advocate. He can therefore take instructions directly from members of the public. If you wish to instruct him on a legal matter, feel free to do so. If, however, he is unable to be of assistance, he will do his best to obtain a lawyer that suits your needs. [caption id="attachment_10671" align="alignnone" width="300"] Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf - Trust Account Lawyer- Best Legal Law Practitioners (Advocate Attorney) Child Custody Maintenance Contact Divorce Relocation Passport Consent High Court Cape Town

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Posted on 11 February 2025 by Telelaw

How to find the best advocate or attorney for legal services in South Africa?

Type of Attorney in South Africa

Type of Advocates in South Africa

In South Africa, we have two types of advocates. They are the referral advocate and then the Trust Account Advocate. The Trust Account Advocate can take work directly from members of the public. Basically, the same as an attorney can. The client would pay a deposit into the Trust Account Advocate’s Trust Banking Account.

Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf is a Trust Account Advocate. He can therefore take instructions directly from members of the public. If you wish to instruct him on a legal matter, feel free to do so. If, however, he is unable to be of assistance, he will do his best to obtain a lawyer that suits your needs.

Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf - Trust Account Lawyer- Best Legal Law Practitioners (Advocate Attorney) Child Custody Maintenance Contact Divorce Relocation Passport Consent High Court Cape Town — Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf – Trust Account Lawyer- Best Legal Law Practitioners (Advocate Attorney) Child Custody Maintenance Contact Divorce Relocation Passport Consent High Court Cape Town

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[caption id="attachment_8911" align="alignleft" width="440"] Parental responsibilities and care during the coronavirus lockdown in South Africa[/caption]
Updated: 16 April 2020
New regulations have been issued on 16 April 2020. Click on the link below: The material change is that you do not have to have a court order or a parental responsibilities and rights agreement or parenting plan, registered with the family advocate. Possession of a birth certificate or certified copy of a birth certificate is now also allowed.

Update: 07 April 2020

NEW LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS REGARDING THE MOVEMENT OF CHILDREN – CERTAIN PARENTS MAY MOVE CHILDREN DURING THE NATIONAL LOCKDOWN PERIOD (7 April 2020)

What separated and divorced parents should think about prior to the coronavirus lockdown

With the world working towards eradicating the spreading of the coronavirus, South Africans are going to be placed on lockdown from 11:59 on Thursday 26 March 2020. This will endure for a period of 21 (twenty-one) days. This is what President Cyril Ramaphosa announced yesterday on national television. The applicable legislation allowing for this is the Disaster Management Act. This is done to contain the spread of the coronavirus in South Africa. What this means, in essence, unless you fall under the categories of persons allowed to work and be out there, you should remain at home.

The Application of Contact and care Court Orders during the lockdown

Schools have already been locked down and its keys stored away. The number of people who may be in the same place at the same time was restricted to an amount of 100. Now things have escalated to everyone staying at home unless you are allowed to be outside. This, however, leaves us with uncertain legal challenges when it comes to the exercising of contact and parental responsibilities and rights to minor children. It becomes even more challenging if there is a court order allowing a parent to have contact, but the child is currently with the other parent during the lockdown. • Does the court order supersede what the President told us to do? • Can we go against the lockdown injunction to exercise contact? At this moment, the questions are hard to answer. And in our view, should not be answered, unless clearer directives are provided by the government, dealing with this situation.

What are the usual contact and care arrangements?

The usual contact and care rights are any or a combination of the following: • The minor child will reside primarily with one parent for a period, and then with the other parent for the same period; • One parent has primary care with the child during the week, and the other parent has contact during alternative weekends; • The child resides with one parent, and the other parent collects the minor child in the morning and takes and collects the minor child from school. Thereafter returning the minor child to the primary caregiver; • Supervised contact, where a parent has contact at the minor child’s primary home, supervised by the other parent or another person; • Contact which is supervised in a public space, or by a social worker; and • Other specific cases. Contact would also entail telephonic and video contact.

How should contact be exercised during a lockdown?

There are 2 (two) more days before the lockdown. What happens to weekend contact? Some parents are exercising holiday contact at present. • What happens at the end of a specific parent’s holiday period? • Can a parent go and collect the child or children and have them now stay at a different parent? • And then return the children later, still during a lockdown? These and other questions are unprecedented, and direction is required from the government, not only lawyers. At the very least, parents should use the next two (2) days to decide where the children would primarily reside, and if indeed they can only live in one home for the 21 days, how contact can take place via other means. For example, WhatsApp video, FaceTime, Skype or Zoom.

Final words on parental contact during the lockdown

• Do not take the law into your own hands. • Until there is certainty on this issue, presume that the child would need to remain with one parent during this period. • Arrange for alternative forms of contact as suggested above. • Also, ensure that the child has enough clothes and necessities at the home he or she will reside during the lockdown. • Use the next two (2) days to prepare for the worst, so that your child would have the best.