Looking for Family Legal Services in Pinelands- Child Maintenance, Child Custody, Visitation Rights and Divorce

Here at our law officers, we understand the struggle of your anxious search for family legal services. Most often, you under the impression that you may not find the legal services you require within close proximity. Look no further.

Family Legal Advice Consultancy

We are a family legal consultancy that strive to cater for all your legal needs by offering legal advice and guidance in family law. If you happen to be residing in the Pinelands area, then legal advice is still in your favor. Searching for a legal solution is tough enough and we are fully aware of this. With this in mind, we have made our legal advice and legal guidance easily accessible for your convenience. Our online system enables you to make an online appointment for a professional legal consultation within minutes, while in the comfort of your own home.

Price listings for Family Legal Services in Pinelands

Legal Advice in Pinelands– Family law legal topics

• Child Maintenance
• Ante-nuptial Contact
• Change Matrimonial Property Regime
• Child Adoption
• Child Custody and Access
• Domestic Violence Protection
• Family Trust Registration
• Fast Unopposed Divorces
• Non-Compliance with maintenance orders
• Parenting Plans
• Postnuptial Contract Registration
• Pre-nikkah Agreement

Child Maintenance

1. How to Apply for Child Maintenance at Court – Step by Step Guide and Advice
2. Child Maintenance Question. How much should I pay or contribute as a p
3. Child Support or maintenance claims. Does an unemployed father pay?
4. Non-compliance with Maintenance Orders — Civil and Criminal Remedies
5. Tricks and tips on how to win your child maintenance case

Child Custody

1. The Law Regarding Children – The Children’s Act 38 of 2005
2. Child born out of wedlock: Mother will not consent to her surname change and to be registered as her biological father. What can I do?
3. How do I get full custody over my child?
4. Parental Child Abuse in Custody Cases
5. Relocate with minor child. Parent Refusing Consent for a Passport
6. Father being refused contact to his child! What are his rights as a Father?
7. Father’s Parental Responsibilities and Rights to his Child
8. Urgent Access to your Children without a Lawyer
9. Parenting Plans and the Law
10. What happens in a custody dispute where one parent is mentally ill?
11. How to win your child custody and access court case – Tips and Tricks
12. Rights of care, contact and guardianship of grandparents to their grandchildren – What does the law say?

Divorce and Property

1. How to Change your Matrimonial Property Regime
2. Do your own Unopposed Divorce. No lawyers needed and its Free.
3. Parental Rights of Divorced Muslim parents after a Talaq or Faskh
4. Free Online Divorce Assistance Form – DIY Cape Town South Africa comprising of:

• Divorce guide
• Sample High Court Summons
• Particulars of Claim
• Notice of Set Down

Legal consultation – telephonic, face to face or via video chat / Skype legal advice for those residing in Pinelands

1. Call our friendly receptionist and ask to have an appointment made for you online which will only take a minute or two.
2. You have the choice of deciding whether you would like a telephonic, email, video chat/Skype legal consultation.
3. Once you call our law offices on 021 424 3487, the receptionist will make an appointment online for you. Thereafter, you will receive an automated email which will contain all relevant details about the legal consultation. The date, time, nature of legal matter and payments methods will be highlighted within the email.
4. We urge potential clients to read their email well as well as the terms and conditions within the email.
5. Only once payment has been made, will the face to face legal consultation be confirmed.
6. Bear in mind that the date and time of the legal consultation is subject to change on either our part or the potential client’s part. Hence the potential client is free to change the date and time should they later find a more convenient date or time.

Free legal products if you live in Pinelands

1. Free Basic Will Tool Kit
2. Free Shariah Will Template
3. Free Divorce Starter Tool Kit
4. Free Child Maintenance Calculator
5. Free DIY Urgent Child Contact Toolkit
6. Urgent Holiday Contact Toolkit

I cannot afford to pay child maintenance during the Lockdown. What can I do? The other parent of my child has not paid any maintenance since before the lockdown. What should I do?

  We are now on day 19 of the National Lockdown. Many expected the lockdown to endure for only 21 days. However, it is now set for 35 days. Unless you are an essential worker, or a business providing essential services, you may not go out to work or earn a living. You may, however, work from home making use of email, telephone calls, and video calls. However, the vast majority of workers in South Africa do not work from a computer or have the ability to earn money from being online. This applies to restaurants, retail stores and suppliers, the building and maintenance industry, and so on. The list is extensive. For those who are lucky to be employed, some will only receive half their salary and some none. No work, no pay. This is a sad reality of the national lockdown. Many people will be left without jobs and unable to pay their expenses. We can only hope and pray that the COVID-19, coronavirus pandemic comes to an end as soon as possible. South Africans can then work together in building our nation back to where it was and beyond.

Regulations regarding the movement of children during the lockdown

1. There are arrangements in place for the children to move for one parent to another in terms of a court order; or
2. A parental responsibilities and rights agreement or parenting plan registered with the office of the Family Advocate; and
3. In the household to which the child is to move, there is no person who is known to have come into contact with, or is reasonably suspected to have come into contact with, a person known to have contracted, or reasonably suspected to have contracted, COVID-19;
4. The parent or caregiver transporting the child concerned must have in his or her possession, the court order or the latter agreement, or a certified copy thereof.

TAKE NOTE! There is NO Child Maintenance Payment Holiday during the National Lockdown Period!

A parent’s duty to pay child maintenance

What are the social welfare consequences of not paying child support?

1. Food (breakfast, lunch and supper)
2. Accommodation (rent)
3. Electricity, water and gas
4. Basic clothing
5. Basic educational expenses
6. Personal hygiene and medical expenses

What if a parent really cannot afford to pay child maintenance during the lockdown period?

For what may a parent approach the maintenance court during the lockdown?

Written by Kouthar Sambo

We are conveniently located in the Pinnacle Building, in the Cape Town CBD. Click here to call us on (021) 4243487 or send us an email.

According to the court roll of the Western Cape High Court, there were twenty-one (21) uncontested divorces to be heard today. There are approximately fifty-five Magistrate’s Courts in the Western Cape and these various Regional Magistrates’ Courts, which also deals with divorces, but does not provide statistics to the public online. Other than certain days during the year when the Western Cape High Court has its recess period; uncontested divorces are heard on a daily basis. Earlier this month, on the 5^th of October 2016, there were thirty-two (32) uncontested divorces in the Western Cape High Court, court roll.  This was during the recess period. According to Advocate Muhammad Abduroaf, a Family Law Expert, a divorce can be placed on the unopposed divorce roll after ten (10) working days have lapsed since the defendant has been served with the divorce summons: “If a spouse is served with a divorce summons and does nothing for ten (10) days, the attorney for the Plaintiff would set the matter down for hearing soon thereafter. However, should the Defendant in the divorce proceedings defend the matter, it may still be settled. In such a case, a settlement agreement or consent paper gets entered into the matter. From there onward, the matter may be placed on the unopposed divorce roll for hearing. If there are children involved, the Office of the Family Advocate should first enforce the consent paper or settlement agreement,” reiterated Abduroaf. He further added that divorces in the High Court can be costly as one will require an Attorney and an Advocate. Furthermore, an uncontested divorce could cost as much as R 15 000 – 00.  “A more cost effective option would be to have it done in the Regional Court where there would be assistance from the clerks of the court,” says Abduroaf. In the event of a big or complicated joint estate, with minor children involved, he advises that you enlist the services of an attorney to attend to your divorce, even if it would be uncontested. 26 August 2016, marked a whopping thirty-one (31) uncontested divorces on the Western Cape High Court, court roll – leaving us with quite an amount of uncontested divorces for one day. Furthermore, there could be many reasons for so much divorces in one day: one of which is that the legal representatives of the parties, or the divorce parties themselves, were only available on that particular day. September 2016 reveals a modest highest amount of uncontested divorces in a single day for the past three (3) months, with the highest amount of divorces taking place on 2 September 2016, amounted to twelve (12). What’s your take on the divorce rate in South Africa? We would love to hear from you!

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