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There are several marital property regimes which can apply to a marriage in South Africa. By default, if a couple does not sign an antenuptial contract before the marriage, they are married in community of property, which means that all of their assets and liabilities (even those acquired before the marriage) are merged into a joint estate, in which each spouse has an undivided half-share.
Blacks Resettlement Act, 1954 (after 1978) 20: South Africa Act Amendment Act, 1954: 21: Criminal Procedure and Jurors Amendment Act, 1954: 22: Wine and Spirits Control Amendment Act, 1954: 23: Artificial Insemination of Animals Act, 1954: 24: Transvaal Gold Law Amendment Act, 1954: 25: Marriage Officers Amendment Act, 1954: 26: Electricity ...
The Special Marriage Act, 1954 is an act of the Parliament of India with provision for secular civil marriage (or "registered marriage") for people of India and all Indian nationals in foreign countries, irrelevant of the religion or faith followed (both for inter-religious couples and also for atheists and agnostics) by either party. [1]
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The following principles apply only to the dissolution of a common-law marriage in terms of the Divorce Act. To obtain a decree of divorce on the ground of the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, the plaintiff must satisfy the court that the marriage relationship between the parties has reached such a state of disintegration that there is no reasonable prospect of the restoration of a ...
Marriage Act 1939; Foreign Marriage Act 1947; Marriage Act 1949; Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954; Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958; Marriage (Secretaries of Synagogues) Act 1959; Marriage (Enabling) Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 29) Marriage (Wales and Monmouthshire) Act 1962; Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970; Marriage Act 1983
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
South African family law is concerned with those legal rules in South Africa which pertain to familial relationships. [1] It may be defined as "that subdivision of material private law which researches, describes and regulates the origin, contents and dissolution of all legal relationships between: (i) husband and wife (including the parties to a civil union); (ii) parents, guardians (and ...