(LL11-2024) How does future maintenance work

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General documents referred to:

•  Maintenance Act, Act 99 of 1989

•  FREE eBook: Everything you should know about child and spousal maintenance before applying

 

Resource material for this webinar:

• Handout: How does future maintenance work

• Slides: How does future maintenance work

• SA Law Reform Commission Paper 157 (proposals to changes of the Maintenance Act)

• Case law: Soller v Maintenance Magistrate, Wynberg and Others [2006] 1 BPLR 53 (C)

Below are a couple of questions to self-test your knowledge. You can complete the form below with your details and answer the questions and you will be sent the correct answers together with explanations within 3 minutes to your email address.

 

1. What does future maintenance or anti-dissipation interdicts refer to?
2. In what circumstance can future maintenance be claimed?
3. Which legislation allows for the attachment of pensions, gratuities, and annuities to satisfy a maintenance order?
4. What is the purpose of a rule nisi-order in the context of future maintenance?
5. How are future maintenance payments typically made?
6. What documentation is required when claiming future maintenance?
7. What is the purpose of future maintenance?
8. Which court has jurisdiction to make orders relating to future maintenance?
9. How are future maintenance payments enforced?
10. In what way did the court's decision in Soller v Magistrate, Wynberg 2006 (2) SA 66 (C) impact future maintenance jurisdiction?

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