I only learned this because Black Coffee got divorced.
The more people I spoke to about it, the more I realised how few people know about it.
If lobola has been paid, your property might already be co-owned.
So I spoke to Cor van Deventer, a conveyancer at VDM Attorneys, to unpack what most South Africans are getting wrong.
Traditional marriages are legally recognised under the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1999.
Once lobola is paid, you are legally married.
If no antenuptial contract was signed before lobola was paid, this means that if you jointly own a house and get divorced, you guys remain halvies on the house.
Whether Home Affairs paperwork exists or not is irrelevant. That is the part almost nobody plans for.
If you want to protect your real estate assets, an antenuptial contract must be signed before the lobola ceremony concludes.
The Black Coffee divorce tested this in court, and just yesterday the Constitutional Court confirmed it: antenuptial contracts signed after a customary marriage are not valid.
If you are getting married under customary law, treat the legal advice as part of the ceremony and not an afterthought.
Even when romance fades, paperwork lasts forever🖤
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