A Western Cape judge has urged angry divorcing couples with 'substantial estates' to stop dragging out the inevitable in the hope of finding hidden money, because they will end up broke. | itchybyte
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"In most circumstances, the parties are in and out of court raising unnecessary or inconsequential legal issues against each other, which ultimately amount to nothing," she wrote.She added that by the time a divorce dispute like this goes to trial, the parties don't even have money to pay for a lawyer.
The estranged husband moved out of the home, and Judge Gayaat Salie ordered in August 2020 that he pay R20 000 a month in maintenance, plus expenses, until the civil divorce was finalised. A year later, the husband applied for the order to be varied, saying he could not keep up and because the order was broad, he ended up paying for whatever his wife said she needed.
He also complained that he received expenses receipts from her in bundles instead of within 10 days of the expense, leaving him to pay huge amounts at once. He pleaded for the amount to be reduced to R10 000 because he was going deeper and deeper into debt trying to support two households.
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