(LL27-2023) How are maintenance defaulters blacklisted?

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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, No. 99 of 1998

Maintenance Act, No. 99 of 1998 Regulations 

 

Resource material for this webinar:

Slideshow: How are maintenance defaulters blacklisted?

Handout: How are maintenance defaulters blacklisted?

FORM W- Blacklisting of maintenance defaulters

 

Additional articles of interest:

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (Mar-Apr_2015) – Maintenance Defaulters & Credit Bureaus

News 24: Maintenance defaulters can be traced via their phones, and blacklisted

Businesstech: Government working on new laws to blacklist maintenance defaulters in South Africa (1 Sept 2022)

People’s Assembly: Maintenance defaulters to be blacklisted by credit bureaus?

IOL: Maintenance defaulters to be blacklisted

ANC protecting maintenance defaulters – Denise Robinson (2015) (www.politicsweb.co.za)

Helen Zille launches national petition to blacklist child maintenance defaulters (2015) (www.polity.org.za)

Podcast: Law Focus – Blacklisting of Maintenance defaulters

Rooi Rose (February 2023): Egskeiding: vars oplossings vir die betaling van onderhoud en ouersamewerking

 

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Lunch and learn is a proud initiative by Oppermans Inc. Below please find a short bio and contact details of our presenter(s):

 

  EUGENE OPPERMAN, director and founder of Oppermans Inc, a family law practice with 23 years of experience in family mediation, child maintenance, domestic violence matters and issues regarding children (parenting plans, care- and contact arrangements).

info@oppermansinc.co.za / info@lunchandlearn.org.za

www.oppermansinc.co.za