Developing the common law of breach of promise and universal partnerships: rights to property sharing for all cohabitants

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dc.contributor.authorBonthuys, Elsje
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-10T13:06:00Z
dc.date.available2018-12-10T13:06:00Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe 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'en_ZA
dc.description.librarianML2018en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationElsje Bonthuys, Developing the Common Law of Breach of Promise and Universal Partnerships: Rights to Property Sharing for All Cohabitants, 132 S. African L.J. 76 (2015)
dc.identifier.issn00382388
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26208
dc.journal.titleSouth African Law Journalen_ZA
dc.journal.volume132en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherJuta Lawen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Law
dc.subjectCohabitantsen_ZA
dc.subjectCommon Lawen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversal partnershipsen_ZA
dc.subjectLife partnershipen_ZA
dc.subjectProperty sharingen_ZA
dc.subjectBreach of promiseen_ZA
dc.subjectEngagementsen_ZA
dc.subjectOpposite-sexen_ZA
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleDeveloping the common law of breach of promise and universal partnerships: rights to property sharing for all cohabitantsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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