Other Welfare/ Protection/ Family Law Issues [custody, support, grant and access]

Ford v Ford [2004] 2 All SA 396 (W)

Main Issue: Application by custodian parent of young child for leave to remove child permanently from South Africa – child strongly bonded to both parents – interests of child first and paramount consideration.

Mthembu v Letsela and another (2000) 3 All SA 219 (A)

Main Issue: Succession/disinheritance/customary law/ right to inheritance of an illegitimate child (daughter)/discrimination/ challenging the rule of primogeniture as discriminatory on the basis of sex and race as it only applied against black women/girls