Cilliers & Associates

Family law services are comprehensive and cover inter alias the following : * Divorce Actions: Mediating the terms of the divorce action, institution or defending divorce actions, variation of existing divorce orders, interim applications during the divorce process, etc. * Maintenance: First Applications, increase / decrease / setting aside of maintenance court orders, enforcing existing orders, claiming arrears maintenance * Domestic Violence Applications (Protection Orders) and Harassment Applications: Launching the applications, defending the applications, implementing the orders * Assistance with legal applications during complicated adoptions (ordinary adoptions are managed by Social Services) and surrogacy * International issues in family- and children's law: immigration of children with a parent, contact with a parent in a foreign country, maintenance mirror court orders in a foreign country, court applications when a parent refuses to sign consent for a passport or for a child to leave the country * Ante-nuptial contract to marry out of community of property with / without the application of the accrual system (contract must be signed before date of marriage) * Post-nuptial contracts to change matrimonial property regime after marriage * Last will and testaments, inclusive of Testamentary Trusts for minor children surviving their parents * Applications for the granting of or enforcement of parental rights and responsibilities in terms of the Children's Act such as appointment of a legal guardian, assignment of primary care and contact. We appear in the High Court, Cape Town and the Eastern Circuit High Court in George, the Regional Courts in the South Cape and the Magistrates Courts in Riversdale, Mossel Bay, George, Oudtshoorn, Knysna