Browsing Journals by Subject "Domestic partnership"
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An embarrassment of riches or a profusion of confusion? An evaluation of the continued existence of the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 in the light of prospective domestic partnerships legislation in South Africa
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2010)As it stands, South African family law currently holds that the Marriage Act 25 of 1961 applies exclusively to the solemnisation of heterosexual civil marriages while samesex couples have no choice but to formalise their ... -
Rethinking Volks v Robinson: The implications of appliying a "contextualised choice model" to prospective South African domestic partnership legislation
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2010)The article considers certain critical failings of the so-called "choice argument" (that is the view that, by opting to cohabit in a life partnership rather than marry or enter into a civil partnership, a life partner ...
