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Immigration and relocation: What are your rights?

Posted by on Jul 4, 2014

Immigration and relocation: What are your rights?

The news that your former spouse intends to emigrate, taking your children with them, is devastating. What are your rights in this difficult situation? In South Africa, all legislation related to the contact you, as a divorced parent, enjoy with your child (previously known as ‘access’) is contained in the Children’s Act of 2005. It outlines all your responsibilities in terms of caring for your child, having contact with them, maintenance and guardianship. An outstanding feature of this act is that it has been carefully formulated to look at these issues from the child’s point of view. In...

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