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Welcome to the Legal Advice Office in South Africa

The Legal Advice Office offers affordable Legal Advice as well as Legal and Paralegal Services throughout South Africa.

Our legal advice and services are based on 40 years of experience in the professional legal field. As a purely internet based legal consultancy business, we pride ourselves in personal, professional and efficient service at affordable rates and undertake to revert to our clients within 48 hours of their query being received by us.

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People get arrested in South Africa every day.

Normally the SAPS will only arrest a person when a serious crime is involved, but this is not always the rule and people are arrested even for what one would think are minor offences like shoplifting of reckless driving.

If this should happen to you; what do you do?

"I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence. Is this true?"

Corporal Punishment:

Here is a query we received yesterday via email.

"I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence.

Is this true? Will this not result in an overloading our justice system even more than it already is?"

We all know that corporal punishment in any form in our schools has been outlawed for a long time.

But what is the situation at home?

Divorce: Proprietary and Pension Fund Benefits:

In our last blog, we looked at proprietary rights on divorce.

Today we look specifically at pension benefits at divorce.

To start with here is a quote from the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor: “I have learned that not diamonds; but divorce lawyers are a girl’s best friend.”

What can I claim from my spouse?

It is a sad fact of life that many of our marriages end up in a divorce; and as the statistics imply, up to two-thirds of all marriages, depending on where you live and into what social bracket you fall, end in a divorce; it is advisable to know your rights.

Divorce is not the end of the line; bot knowing your legal rights in advance and in the event of a possible divorce is vital.

What do I need to do?

An often heard plea.

Every working day hundreds of people get divorced throughout the RSA.

Last time we looked at the Divorce process.

Today; we give you a short blog to finalise this series of blogs on divorce.

As pointed out by one of our readers during the course of this week; “Divorce is not for sissies.”

As promised; we now look at the Divorce process.

All divorces are dealt with either in the High Court or in the Regional Divorce Court; which courts have been specifically created to assist the High Court in dealing with divorce matters. There is a High Court in each major city; and various Regional Divorce Courts in each Region of each province.