Antenuptial Agreements
New couples face the most important financial decisions of their lives. The most prudent advice is given on the best Antenuptial contract to fit their needs. The all inclusive fee includes the following:
ALL INCLUSIVE FEE INCLUDES
- Consultation with clients to advise on the marriage regimes
- Drafting of the Antenuptial Agreement of their choice; and
- Registration of the Antenuptial Agreement
Types of Marriages in South African Family Law
Marriage in Community of Property = one communal estate, with partners liable for each other’s debt. A marriage in community of property automatically takes place in the absence of a registered Marriage Contract (ante nuptial contract);
Marriage out of Community of Property without the Accrual = no profit or loss, without the concept of sharing;
Marriage Out of Community of Property with the Accrual = no profit or loss, with the concept of sharing.
Bills of Cost & Taxation
Cost consulting deals with the quantification of all attorney fees and any associated legal costs. With the costs of attorneys being so high, it is important to have highly effective and experienced cost consultant attorneys who are dedicated to the drafting of bills of costs and attending to the taxation thereof.
Anna Rombolakis Attorneys has established itself to be one of the most prominent in Gauteng and can be considered as an excellent – oiled machine which handles numerous taxing matters:
Our Cost Consultant Services includes the following:
- Drawing of Attorney and own Client Bills of Cost;
- Drawing of Attorney and Client Bill of Costs;
- Drawing of Party and Party Bills of Costs;
- Attending to Taxations in the High as well as the Magistrate Court;
- Opposing Bills of Costs;
- Settling Bills of Costs; and
- Assistance with Fee Assessment at the Legal Practice Council
Our offices attend to draft Bills in the Following Fields:
- High Court Matters;
- Magistrate Court Matters;
- Appeal Court Matters;
- Constitutional Court Matters;
- Criminal Court Matters;
- Road Accident Fund Matters;
- Medical Negligence Matters;
- Labour Court Matters
Business & Corporate Law
Commercial law encompasses all legal principles which are applicable to the world of business and applies to individuals who are engaged in commercial and business transactions.
Commercial law pertains to those legal principles applied in the world of business and applies to persons and entities who are engaged in business and commercial transactions. Corporate law mainly deals with the legal principles applicable to companies and other legal entities.
As imaginable, the Corporate Field of law has an extremely large and wide application which can range from ordinary sale of goods and products in a store to large merger and acquisition transactions which takes place by and between multi-national corporations.
In the Corporate field of law, a very wide range of skills set lawyers specialising in this field must possess the necessary facets.
Our team of Corporate and Commercial Lawyers are equipped with extensive knowledge and experience, possessing the required skill sets to service all of your corporate and commercial law needs. In this regard, we offer services relating to:
- Shareholders’, Association and Partnership Agreements
- Supply and Distribution Agreements
- Leases and Agreements Related to Developing Real Estate
- Deeds of Sale
- Real Estate and Township Development Agreements
- Financing and Funding Agreements
- Sale of Shares Agreements, Sale of Members’ Interest Agreements and Sale of Business Agreements
- Many other agreements
Commercial Law & Drafting of Miscellaneous Agreements
Assistance with any commercial disputes within your company. Including drafting the following agreements to protect yourself to avoid any disputes.
- Shareholder agreements
- Lease agreements
- Partnership Agreements
- Sale of business
- Sale of Shares
- Non-Disclosures
- Franchise Agreements
- Pledge of Shares
- MOI
Correspondent Services
Our multiple offices are conveniently located to assist and offer correspondent services to the following Jurisdictions:
- Pretoria Magistrate Court
- Pretoria Regional Court
- Pretoria North Magistrate Court
- Pretoria High Court
- Randburg Magistrate Court
- Johannesburg High Court
- Midrand Branch Court
Criminal Law & Bail Applications
If you are facing a criminal charge, we assist in understanding the charges against you, the defences available to you and provide you with diligent and professional legal assistance to ensure the best possible outcome. Response to a criminal arrest is always urgent, to secure bail and thereafter liaise with law enforcement authorities and to ensure that you feel supported throughout the process.
Our experienced officials can help with the following:
- Bail applications at Police Stations
- Formal Bail Applications in all courts
- Plea and Sentence Agreements
- Formal Representations
- Criminal Litigation
- Appeal and Reviews to the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court
- Review of setting aside admission of guilt payments
- Expungements of Criminal Records
District, Regional & High Court Trials:
- Public Indecency
- Housebreaking
- Public violence
- Contempt of Court
- Fraud, Theft and other Commercial Offences
- Perjury
- Forgery
- Drug Related Offences
- Assault Charges
- Extortion
- Arson
- Driving under the Influence of Alcohol
- Other driving related offences
- Immigration related offences Domestic Violence
- Malicious Damages to Property and
- Crimen Injuria
Debt Collection
Our firms represent Individual and Corporate clients.
We strive to recover maximum debt within the quickest recovery time. Effective debt recovery requires investment. We are therefore hesitant to offer services on a contingency basis as it is our belief that mere litigation is not enough.
Monitoring and consistent pressure is required for thriving recovery. Further to the aforementioned, we follow the prescriptions of the National Credit Act and prevent preventable litigation. Our team have shown success dealing with various recovery assignments, and have sound knowledge in collections relating ot to but in no way limited to:
- The National Credit Act
- Leases
- General Debt Collections
Disputes Resolution
Our mediation and arbitration services are designed to save you valuabe time and money.
Mediation
Mediation is used to assist parties to settle a dispute. This process is facilitated by a neutral third party called the mediator , who assist the parties to rediscover what triggered their dispute. This is a more speedy and cost effective process.
Arbitration
This is where a neutral third party is appointed to hear a dispute between parties. The hearing is informal and the parties mutually select the arbitrator. The arbitrator is retained to decide how to settle the dispute and the decision is final and binding on the parties. Arbitration is more cost efficient and quicker than litigation
Family Law
Our services cover a wide range of family issues, including:
- Family Litigation
- Proceedings related to Care/Custody and Contact/Access to Minor Children
- Settlement Agreements
- Parental Plans
- Maintenance Proceedings
- Legal Proceedings related to Domestic Violence/Harassment
- Rights of Unmarried Fathers
- Post-Divorce Matters including Child Relocation and Co-Habitation Agreements
- Adoption
- Change of Matrimonial Property Regimes
- Deal with Referral of Matters to Family Advocate
- Contact and Care
- Primary Residence of Children
- All aspects of Divorce
- All aspects related to the Guardian Fund
- Ante-nuptial Contracts and Changes in Matrimonial Property Regimes
- Assistance in reaching Amicable Settlements through Negotiation and Support
- Rule 43 Applications for Interim Relief
- Mediation in Family Law Disputes
- Divorces
General Litigation
Having extensive experience with the Civil Litigation process, we've assisted clients in various disputes. Our team has successfully navigated a number of claims through the legal process as well as in defence of claims brought against our clients. Additional assistance is provided by approaching the relevant courts (Magistrates Court, High Court and Constitutional Court).
- Instituting applications for an order making an adjudication award an order of court, allowing the award to be judicially executed
- Obtaining Urgent Interdicts
- Instituting Damage Claims for losses suffered
- Launching Applications to compel or prohibit Administrative Action of various types
- Challenging Policy or other Legislative Decisions taken outside the scope of an administrator’s powers
- Evictions Applications
- Appeals and Reviews of Court Orders
Our litigation attorneys assist with High Court Actions and Applications in respect of:
- Administrative Law
- Banking Law (including Commercial Disputes, Negotiable Instruments, Foreclosures and Repossessions
- Building & Construction Disputes
- Competition Law
- Constitutional Law
- Construction & Engineering Law
- Contractual, Corporate & Commercial Matters
- Enforcement and Protection of Contractual and Delictual Rights
- Family Law & Matrimonial Disputes
- Insolvency, including Liquidation of Companies, Close Corporations, and Sequestration of Trust and Individual Users
- Insurance Law
- Personal Injury Claims, including those arising out of Motor-vehicle Accidents, Medical Negligence, Assault, Actions of Animals, Ultra Vires Actions of the State and Case of Vicarious Liability
- Product Liability, Unfair Practices and Consumer Issues
- Product Negligence Claims including those arising
Insolvency & Business Rescue
Our highly qualified team has extensive knowledge and experience with all sorts of Insolvency Law. Our objective is to minimise hardship and maximise recovery. Everything in our power is done to resolve insolvency issues and manage the debtor out of the financial crisis to avoid liquidation. From a creditor’s point of view, we fully understand the operation of a financial institution in recoveries division. These services include:
- Liquidations and Sequestrations
- Insolvencies and Insolvency Investigation
- Deceased Estates
- Management of Business Prior to Liquidation
Insurance Law
Insurance Law deals with claims against persons and entities who are insured, and focuses, to a large extent, on claims relating to the liability of insured persons for harm or damage caused to others. This can include the loss of or damage to property, and even injury to or the death of, a person or persons.
We provide services to various insurance companies and individual clients. Our Insurance Law department regularly institutes or defends actions in the Magistrates’, Regional and High Courts relating to, amongst others, fires, slip and falls, assaults, motor vehicle collisions and related causes.
Our Insurance Law department also assists clients in professional indemnity claims against professionals who, in their professional capacity, have caused persons to suffer a loss, whether by allowing a person’s claim to prescribe, settling a claim for an unreasonably low amount or, with regards to lawyers, overcharging clients in respect of fees.
Labour Law
Our highly qualified team has extensive knowledge and experience with labour law. A full spectrum of labour law services is provided which includes the following:
- Unfair Dismissal Disputes
- Discrimination in the Workplace
- Labour Litigation
- Industrial Action
- Retrenchments
- Drafting Contracts
- All matters related to labour legislation
- Disciplinary Hearings
- Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration Services
We take great pride in representing our clients before the CCMA, Labour Court, High Court and various tribunals - diligently supporting our clients assisting in aligning their businesses with the correct labour law practice and procedure.
Notary Services
We are your one stop centre for all Notarial Services, in Pretoria, Gauteng. For a document signed in South Africa to be accepted, it usually needs to be first notarised. Our services include:
- Attesting Affidavits, Acknowledgements & Statutory Declarations
- Verifying Documents & Identities
- Authenticating & Certifying Documents
- Certifying & Attesting Power of Attorney
- Issuing Notary Certificate
We can notarise documents in any language as long as the name(s) of the preson(s) executing the document, is mentioned in English on the document.
Additional Services that we offer:
- Authentication of Documents
- Apostille Certificates
- Notarial Contracts
- Notarial Deeds
- Notarial Bonds
- Notarial Lease Agreements
- Personal and Praedial Servitudes
Property Law & Conveyancing
Our highly qualified team has extensive knowledge and experience in the property law.
- Commercial & Residential Developments; including Township Establishment and Sectional Title Developments
- Conventional Transfer of Properties as well as Transfers as a result of or in terms of Liquidations, Evictions, Foreclosures, Court Orders, Donations, Deceased Estates and Insolvency
- Negotiating and Drafting Agreements relating to Sale of Residential and Commercial Property
- Project & Commercial Property Development Finance Advice
- Registration & Cancellation of all types of Bonds; including Mortgage, Surety, Collateral and Notarial Powers
- Registration of all types of Servitudes
- Subdivision & Consolidation of Properties
RAF Claims
Personal Injury Law is that branch of the law that deals with situations where a person’s body, mind, and or emotions are injured, usually due to someone else’s negligent, reckless or wilful conduct.
Third Party Claims forms part of Personal Injury Law and relates to claims by people who were injured in motor vehicle accidents, or by dependents of people who died in or as a result of motor vehicle accidents, caused by the negligent driving of motor vehicles.
Our personal injury and third party claims range from small to large, but for our expert lawyers, the turnaround times are quick. Discuss your road accident fund claim with an expert and get a fair payout. Our services are at no cost to you.
Trusts & Deceased Estates
Death is certain and it is difficult when our loved ones pass away. In the event of such a tragedy we assist in reporting the deceased estate to the Master of the High Court, in the jurisdiction where the deceased resides within six weeks after date of death.
- Assist with drafting of Wills
- Estate Planning & Administration
Deceased Estates
The passing of a loved one is always a traumatic experience. Our Wills and Estates department try and alleviate the burden associated with the passing of a loved one, by tending to the administrative aspects of finalising the deceased’s estate.
A person’s estate includes all property and liabilities of that person at a particular time. Estates are not only applicable when a person dies, but also when a person is no longer capable of managing his or her own affairs.
Our services, however, do not stop here, we also attend to, advise on and draft legal documents in respect of the establishment of trusts, which can be used as a business entity or in order to safeguard the interests of your minor children should anything happen to you.
Trusts Registrations
We advise our clients on various aspects pertaining to Trust Law. There are two main types of trust:
1. Mortis causa trust which is created in a will when you die
2. Inter vivos trust which you register at the Master
A trust is a separate legal entity with a legal personality. A trust can own or purchase property, shares and other assets. A trust has contractual capacity.
Why should you set up a trust?
1) Succession Planning:
A trust survives the death of the person who set up the trust. As such, it is a reliable way to ensure that your heirs will enjoy their inheritance without incurring debt in the form of Estate Duty. By holding assets in a Trust, the value of an estate is decreased. Any property owned by the trust upon your death is excluded from the calculation of Estate Duty.
2) Incapacity:
A trust may hold assets in cases where the beneficiary is incapable of doing so due to incapacity (mental or physical).
3) Sequestration and Creditors:
A trust will protect your assets in the event of your sequestration and can also not be attached by creditors that might have judgements against you.
Security of Minors - Should you die without a Testamentary Trust, your heirs under the age of eighteen are unable to inherit assets from your estate. Their inheritance is paid into the Guardian's Fund. The inheritance is not maximized by investment and there have been issues with gaining access to the funds. A trust will ensure that the inheritance is invested and will provide easy access to funds.