Legal Trends 2019
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2018 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Legal site over the past year below...
18 Dec 2018
A comprehensive B2B Recruitment Focus from December 2018 to February 2019 will ensure that Bizcommunity is the go-to destination for all the B2B news you'll need to plan your HR and recruitment strategies in 2019...
Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018
Feeling a bit state-capsized, swept along by more waves than a cryptocurrency chart? Here are some life-saving festive content ideas...
Bizcommunity.com 15 Oct 2018
As cryptocurrency is a relatively new kid on the block, so to speak, the full legal ramifications of what happens to it in the event of a death or divorce are still being explored...
15 Aug 2018
The complainant (name withheld to protect identity of a minor child) brought a complaint against the Mineworkers Provident Fund (respondent) over the non-payment of the death benefit, following the death of the respondent's member...
6 Jun 2017
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2016 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Legal portal over the past year below.
12 Dec 2016
In its second report on estate duty, the Davis Tax Committee makes recommendations regarding tax on estates and trusts, especially inter-spouse and primary abatements...
Graeme Palmer 27 Sep 2016
As has become tradition over the past few years, members of the public will be able to have a basic will drafted by an attorney, free of charge, during National Wills Week, held from 12 - 16 September 2016...
12 Sep 2016
Your last will and testament is the only valid and legally enforceable instruction left behind to express the wishes and estate division guidelines of a deceased. To ensure that the remaining family members and beneficiaries are not left in a perilous situation and that the wishes of the deceased are honoured, it is essential to avoid common pitfalls at drafting stage...
20 Jul 2016
In the recent case of Constantia Insurance Company Limited v Master of the High Court, Johannesburg, the High Court considered whether the provisions of the Insolvency Act, No 24 of 1936 permit the Master to consider liquidators' additional submissions in response to a creditor's substantiation of its claim...
Thabile Fuhrmann and Vincent Manko 27 Jun 2016
In an ever-evolving family trust landscape, complacency and inertia could spell disaster for the best-laid investment and estate planning strategy...
Jan Dawid Luttig, fiduciary specialist 3 May 2016
In the matter of Mahomed v Argus Provident Fund, the Pension Fund Adjudicator dealt with dissatisfaction with the allocation and distribution of a death benefit...
Zaaheda Mayet 5 Apr 2016
A new SARS Ruling, Binding Private Ruling 217 deals with the estate duty implications for non-resident individual investors - the key issue being how certain sections of the Estate Duty Act (EDA) would apply...
Heinrich Louw 28 Jan 2016
The First Interim Report on Estate Duty, released by the David Tax Committee in July 2015, called for industry comment. Andrew Moller, CEO of Citadel, made the following comments...
25 Nov 2015
