(LL12-2024) How does spousal maintenance work

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Pre-reading material: Spousal Maintenance

This section contains the slideshow (if used), webinar handout and important resources that we will be referring back to during the webinar. Please download and print these before the start of the webinar or have them available electronically to enhance your learning experience. Should the presenters refer to additional recourses during their presentation, then these will be forwarded to all registered attendees after the broadcast.

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 Spousal Maintenance work?

Slides: How does Spousal Maintenance work?

Excerpts of the Divorce Act 70 of 1979

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 is the primary consequence of marriages and civil unions regarding spousal support?
2. What must be proven to qualify for spousal maintenance upon divorce?
3. Which section of the Divorce Act regulates spousal maintenance?
4. What is the rationale behind the clean-break principle as applied by the Courts?
5. What is token maintenance?
6. What is the purpose of a "dum casta" clause in a maintenance agreement?
7. When can an application for spousal maintenance be made?
8. What are indicators of likely success in a spousal maintenance claim?
9. How does the court determine earning capacity in spousal maintenance cases?
10. What happens if there is no settlement agreement regarding spousal maintenance according to Section 7(2) of the Divorce Act?

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