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Master's Office 'not completely collapsed'

By Daily News Published on Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #General Legal Practice
Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery says while there is a way to get the Master’s Office running efficiently, he does not believe it has suffered a complete collapse.

Anger over ‘dysfunctional’ Master’s Office

By Daily News Published on Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #General Legal Practice
Lawyers say the Master’s Office is causing months of delays for crucial legal administrative procedures that should take weeks, reports GroundUp. 

Judge’s father forced to prove he is alive

By Daily News Published on Thursday, 31 August 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
Michael Mossop (86), father of Judge Rob Mossop, has been forced to appear in the KZN High Court (Durban) to prove that he was alive – in spite of Home Affairs having declared him dead.

Ruling goes against Covid death will

By Daily News Published on Monday, 28 August 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts
The Western Cape High Court has ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that a man who died in hospital from Covid-19 had intended to revoke his will and write up a new one in which he left everything to a farming trust instead of his three children.

Excluded son fails to win share of will

By Daily News Published on Monday, 07 August 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
A case of two brothers and an inheritance landed up in the Western Cape High Court where one brother, disinherited by his father, asked that the will be declared not executable so that he could inherit from the estate in terms of the rules of intestate succession.

Court 'reluctantly' settles burial dispute

By Daily News Published on Monday, 07 August 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
A woman’s dying wish that she should be buried in the Eastern Cape has been honoured by the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg), reports the Pretoria News.

Woman’s bid to secure life partner status fails

By Daily News Published on Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Family Law #Litigation #Marriage and Divorce Law
A woman’s legal bid for the court to declare her and her now-deceased partner life partners in order to benefit from his estate has failed.

Second wife wins battle of wills

By Daily News Published on Thursday, 13 July 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation #Marriage and Divorce Law
The Eastern Cape High Court (Mthatha) has dismissed a woman's bid to take control of her deceased husband's estate after she tried to wrestle it from his second wife, reports News24.

Trustee decision-making ruling needs fixing

By Daily News Published on Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
In the recent SCA ruling in Shepstone and Wylie Attorneys v Abraham Johannes de Witt NO & Others, a strong reliance was placed by the court on its interpretation of the trust deed, which, unfortunately, was not well crafted, says Phia van der Spuy, a chartered accountant and tax adviser.

FSCA cancels 6 757 dormant retirement funds

By Daily News Published on Thursday, 30 March 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has cancelled 6 757 inactive retirement funds that were found to have no members, assets or liabilities, with most also not having properly constituted boards in line with the Pension Funds Act.

Regulators focus on trust distributions

By Daily News Published on Thursday, 23 March 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Tax Law
SARS found a R58bn gap for the 2015 tax year between distributions and income declared by trusts, reports Moneyweb.

Importance of amending your will after your divorce

The importance of amending your will after your divorce - unless you want your "ex" to still have everything, you must update your will.

Ruling ends control of family trust feud

By Daily News Published on Thursday, 02 March 2023
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
A dispute over control of a family trust set up in 2007 by an architect who divorced his wife in 2018 and removed her from the trust – leaving two new trustees in control – has been resolved by Western Cape High Court Judge Patrick Gamble.

Time of death central to insurance payout ruling

By Daily News Published on Monday, 14 November 2022
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
The exact time of death of a couple who died in a car accident became the focus of a legal wrangle where the wife was the beneficiary of her husband’s life insurance policy.

Partner wins battle over deceased's pension fund

By Daily News Published on Monday, 14 November 2022
Tags: #Estate Planning & Trusts #Litigation
The former wife of a deceased man and their three children turned to court to challenge the fact that a pension fund allocated his entire payout – about R1.2m – to his girlfriend.

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