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How Your Marriage Contract Affects Your Estate

Most South Africans know that a marriage contract determines how assets are shared between spouses during the marriage. What fewer people realise is that your marriage contract also has profound implications for what happens to your estate when...

•May 5, 2026•Executor Law•estate planning, marriage contracts, wills and estates•no comments

Can an Executor Be a Beneficiary in South Africa?

When someone passes away, a common question among families is whether the person named as executor in the will can also benefit from the estate. Often the deceased has nominated a spouse, adult child, or close friend —...

•April 30, 2026•Executor Law•beneficiary, executor, professional executor, south african law•no comments

How to Update Your Will in South Africa

Most South Africans who have a will drafted it once — perhaps when they bought their first home or had their first child — and have never looked at it since. If that sounds familiar, your will may...

•April 28, 2026•Executor Law•estate planning, formal requirements, new will, updating a will•no comments

What Happens to Your Retirement Fund When You Die?

For many South Africans, a retirement annuity, pension fund, or provident fund represents one of the most significant assets they have built over a lifetime of work. So it makes sense to ask: what actually happens to that...

•April 23, 2026•Executor Law•deceased estate, estate duty, estate planning, life insurance, retirement fund•no comments

How to Get Letters of Executorship in South Africa

When someone passes away and leaves behind assets worth more than R250 000 that need to be managed — property, bank accounts, investments, a business (an estate) someone needs to receive legal authority to deal with those assets...

•April 21, 2026•Executor Law•deceased estate, letters of executorship•no comments

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