Disputes concerning care and contact arrangements for the minor children of divorcing couples present special challenges for professionals in the legal and psychological professions. Care and contact (custody) disputes, ...

Sentences for young offenders have for many decades been at least somewhat more lenient than those for adults. When called upon to specifically address the issue, our courts have often acknowledged that young offenders ...

Although a child's right to parental care and family life is constitutionally entrenched, many South African children are deprived of this right. Transcultural adoption could serve their need but historically this has ...

The Children’s Act 38 of 2005 lacks a detailed guideline that governs the local relocation of a co-parent and child, post-divorce or separation, within the borders of South Africa. Local relocation could either be relocation ...

In GT v CT [2015] 3 ALL SA 631 (GJ) two children had been legally adopted by their stepfather while the Child Care Act was in operation. After the implementation of the Children's Act 38 of 2005, however, he applied for ...