Thousands of couples’ and families’ lives are affected by divorce in South Africa.
In fact, The Justice Department’s 2012-2013 annual report has shown just how prevalent divorce is becoming in our country, with a 28% percent increase that year alone. At Kruger & Pottinger Attorneys, we help resolve conflict between people, while creating the most amicable outcome. Empathy and understanding is key to our people approach.
A divorce is the legal termination of a marriage, leading to the cancellation and reorganisation of legal duties and responsibilities of the parties involved.
Civil marriages, civil unions and religious marriages conducted by registered marriage officers, can only be dissolved by the order of the Court.
This occurs when either or both spouses are no longer willing or able to live with each other, resulting in the destruction of their husband-and-wife relationship, as well as any hope of the resumption of respective spousal duties.
By this point, the breakdown of the marriage must, for whatever reasons, already have reached such a state of disintegration that there is no longer any reasonable prospect of the restoration of a normal marriage relationship between the two parties.
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