by Otto | Jun 6, 2025 | News
“Trust account” You will most often come across trust accounts in your dealings with attorneys and estate agents, who must use them to hold funds on behalf of clients and other third parties. The funds in a trust account must be kept in a registered South African bank...
by Otto | Jun 6, 2025 | News
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.” (Groucho Marx) It’s a perennial topic of dispute in our courts. A couple lives together, sharing the same roof and everything else in perfect happiness and harmony. Until it all goes south....
by Otto | Jun 6, 2025 | News
“Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” (Quoted in the judgment below) One of the greatest tragedies of family fall-outs will always be the effect they have on the children involved. A recent High Court fight over a granny’s...
by Otto | Jun 6, 2025 | News
“The legal principles, as I understand them, do not confer on me the powers of Father Christmas. I cannot rescue the un-rescuable.” (Quoted in the judgment below) We all want loyal, competent staff who remain motivated to stay with us in the long term, but the reality...
by Otto | Jun 6, 2025 | News
“Trust me, I’m a lawyer.” (Popular T-shirt slogan) South African property buyers and sellers will have been cheered by news that we are now officially the most affordable country in the world in which to buy a home. We’re only a nose ahead of the USA and Bahrain in...
by Administrator03 | Feb 26, 2025 | News
“Mortgage”, “Mortgage Bond” and “Home Loan”: What’s the Difference? Derived from French “mort” and “gage” (literally “dead pledge” because it “dies” when settled), a mortgage secures a creditor’s claim and enables it to sell the bonded property if the debtor defaults...
