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Start date: 2010End date: 2019Subject: search.filters.subject.SDG-10: Reduced inequalitiesSubject: search.filters.subject.Breach of promise

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    Developing the common law of breach of promise and universal partnerships: rights to property sharing for all cohabitants
    (Juta Law, 2015) Bonthuys, Elsje
    The Constitutional Court's 2005 judgment in Volks NO v Robinson' has been widely regarded as a setback for the extension of legal rights to opposite-sex cohabitants. The majority of the court held that an unmarried opposite-sex cohabitant is not a spouse under the Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act 27 of 1990.2 According to Smith, this judgment 'effectively put paid to the judicial extension of matrimonial law to unmarried opposite-sex cohabiting life partners'