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May 2015: Your House In A Family Trust – What Happens To It On Divorce?
“….. trust assets held by a trustee in trust, do not form part of the personal property of such trustee as a matter of law” (extract from judgment below) What happens if your home is registered in the name of a trust and you get divorced? Do you get a share of the house’s value? A trust attacked A recent Supreme Court of A...
April 2015: The New Transfer Duty Rates: Will you pay less, or more?
In a nutshell, the transfer duty tax breaks announced in Budget 2015 will reduce costs for most middle-income households but will increase costs of property transactions above about R2,65m (with maximum savings at about the R2m to R2,3m level). Remember that no transfer duty is payable when VAT applies to a sale. The new rates...
March 2015: When the Email is Deadlier than the Mail
"The email of the species is deadlier than the mail." (Stephen Fry) Last month we discussed the need for a “non-variation” clause in every agreement you sign, and the dangers of not having one. This month we turn to the related danger of inadvertently concluding, amending and/or cancelling agreements by email or other ele...
February 2015: Struggling to Evict a “commercial” Occupant? Don’t Stress about Pie
A recent Constitutional Court judgment highlights a fundamental difference in the legal protections afforded to two types of unlawful occupant – Residential occupants: Occupants residing on premises are afforded protection in terms of PIE (The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act) with its m...
Nicole Matisonn
Nicole Matisonn BCom LLB Nicole was admitted as an attorney in 2005 and was a partner of Bernadt Vukic Potash & Getz. Nicole joined the firm of John Taylor and Associates in 2011 and is now assisting Rubenstein Attorneys in their commercial department. Her primary experience is in regulatory matters, mergers and acquisit...