A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part 2: developing customary and common law and circumventing the volks judgment

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dc.citation.epage36en_ZA
dc.citation.issue21en_ZA
dc.citation.spage1en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBonthuys, Elsje
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-25T07:21:07Z
dc.date.available2019-04-25T07:21:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-19
dc.description.abstractPart I of this two-part article argued that post-constitutional developments of the right to support have excluded the largest and most vulnerable sector of South African women – African women in invalid customary marriages and in intimate partnerships which do not resemble monogamous Western nuclear households. Part II explores the avenues to develop customary and common law to extend rights to support to these women. It argues that the current position discriminates against poor, rural African women on multiple intersecting grounds, which creates a duty for courts to develop the current legal rules. Customary law affords scope for development in relation to women in invalid customary marriages. Common law rights to support can be extended either ex contractu or ex lege. Because contractual support rights are of limited use to poor women, the legacy of the majority judgments in Volks v Robinson 2005 5 BCLR 446 (CC) (Volks) must be confronted to strengthen the legal basis for an automatic duty of support to all women in unmarried intimate relationships. The argument in Volks that, women choose to forego legal rights by not getting married is criticised. The minority judgment in Laubscher v Duplan 2017 2 SA 264 (CC) does, however, create potential for overturning this reasoning.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianML2019en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationBonthuys,E.2018.A Duty of Support for All South African Unmarried Intimate Partners Part 2:Developing Customary and Common Law and Circumventing the Volks Judgment.PER/PELJ (21), pp.1-36.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1727-3781
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26836
dc.journal.linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2018/v21i0a4411en_ZA
dc.journal.titleA Duty of Support for All South African Unmarried Intimate Partners Part 2: Developing Customary and Common Law and Circumventing the Volks Judgmenten_ZA
dc.journal.volume21en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journalen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Law
dc.subjectDuty of supporten_ZA
dc.subjectCustomary lawen_ZA
dc.subjectContracten_ZA
dc.subjectChoice to marryen_ZA
dc.titleA duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part 2: developing customary and common law and circumventing the volks judgmenten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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