A Decade of Enforcement and a Friday Evening HearingThe judgment in E.H v J.C.J.V.D (19849/2022) [2026] ZAWCHC 576 (2 October 2026), delivered by Greig AJ in the Western Cape Division, is the latest instalment in a maintenance dispute that has
The Facts: A Long Marriage, a R9.1 Million Settlement and a Maintenance Claim with No TenderThe parties in H.L.B v J.B were married on 22 August 1998, out of community of property and subject to the accrual system. Two children
A right has little practical value if the person who needs its protection cannot obtain an effective remedy. But having a right is one thing. Being able to enforce it, whether you are facing discrimination at work, seeking asylum or
The concept of what would be considered a ‘home’ in its nature is complex to interpret, it has a wide meaning and to an extent creates injustices such as unlawful evictions as its place under the Prevention of Illegal Eviction
The Facts and Procedural History: From Settlement Agreement to a Lapsed AppealThe litigation in B[…] v B[…] (562/2025) [2026] ZASCA 115 (7 September 2026) arose from a divorce that became procedurally protracted despite the parties initially having concluded a settlement
The Facts: Persistent Non-compliance with a Rule 43 Maintenance OrderIn V.P v D.P (2026/190344) [2026] ZAWCHC 509 (10 September 2026), Davis J dealt with an urgent application arising from a respondent’s failure to comply with an interim maintenance order while
By Judge Vincent Saldanha
While some things in life may be inevitable, the way a life
Few interlocutory judgments manage to say something useful about both civil procedure and substantive family law in the same breath. The recent decision of Greig AJ in the Western Cape Division does exactly that. On its face, it is an
The Western Cape Division has once again demonstrated that it will not tolerate maintenance debtors who treat interim maintenance orders as optional, negotiable or subject to their own private assessment of what is “reasonable”. In M.D.V v F.M.D.V (2025/091265) [2026]
This is what we do on Sabbatical. Read and ponder and meditate and hope and rest and refresh. “But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently,
