Plain-language guides on divorce, custody, maintenance, antenuptial contracts, protection orders and adoption in South Africa — by the family law team at Onah Attorneys, Johannesburg.
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Millions of South Africans are married under customary law — and thousands discover at death or divorce that the marriage’s…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. South Africa has one of the world’s clearest surrogacy frameworks — altruistic surrogacy, court-confirmed BEFORE conception, with the commissioning parents…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The other parent ‘went on holiday’ with your child — and isn’t coming back. When a child is wrongfully removed…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Most divorces don’t need a trial — they need a structured negotiation with a referee. Mediation delivers exactly that at…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The most persistent divorce myth in South Africa: ‘my spouse won’t sign, so I’m stuck.’ False. No signature is required…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. A divorce, a death or a family feud — and suddenly grandchildren vanish from grandparents’ lives. South African law gives…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. When one parent systematically turns a child against the other — cancelled visits, poisoned narratives, a child who suddenly ‘hates’…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. ‘Full custody’ is the phrase every worried parent uses — but South African law thinks in terms of primary residence…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Married without an ANC and now building a business, facing risk, or simply wiser? You are not locked in. Section…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The days when an unmarried father had no rights are gone — the Children’s Act gives committed unmarried fathers full,…
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