Maintenance Cases

3) Visser v S (2004) 1 All SA 605 (SCA)

Main Issue: Maintenance and deliberate failure to comply

B v B and another (1999) All SA 289 (A)

Main Issue: Maintenance/termination of duty to support

Bannatyne v Bannatyne (CGE, as amicus curiae) 2003 (2) SA 363 (CC) ; Bannatyne v Bannatyne (2003) SA 359 (SCA)

Brandt v Brandt (2001) JOL 8644 (C)

Main Issue: Maintenance/duty to pay

Grobbelaar v Grobbelaar (2002) JOL 9617 (T)

Main Issue: Payment of maintenance/ private or public school? Whether respondent was in contempt of court?

Manatha v Manatha (1997) JOL 652 (Tk)

Main Issue: Paternity/maintenance

Petersen v Maintenance Officer and others (2004) 1 All SA 117 (C)

Main Issue: Maintenance/paternal grandparent’s duty to an enquiry to pay maintenance

S v Kgonyana (2005) JOL 14522 (T)

Main Issue: Contravention of maintenance order and legality of maintenance order as the “father” had undertaken to maintain the child even though he was not its father.

S v Lubbe (1998) JOL 3950 (T)

Main Issue: Failure to pay maintenance and sentencing/ capacity of magistrate to order payment of arrear

S v Van Vuuren 2005 (2) SACR 1 (CC)

Main Issue: Failure to pay maintenance order and leave to appeal/ applicant seeking to appeal to this Court concerning his failure to pay maintenance for his two minor children