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Landmark ruling on customary marriage could reshape divorce outcomes in South Africa | SA News

Shamla Pather|Published

I CAME across a plaque-frame years ago which said, “Marriages performed by the Captain are valid only for the duration of the voyage.”

This could not be truer when it comes to parties going through matrimonial discord. Parties are happy, content and are able to make decisions together, financial or otherwise while they are together. Somehow the termination of the relationship brings about the change in personalities, the children start belonging to only one spouse, expenses increase exponentially and likewise decrease phenomenally, and so the list goes on.

For those of you who have been in litigious divorces, you know exactly what I…

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