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Divorce: start with the question you need answered

Start with a practical question, then follow the relevant service link when you need advice on your own circumstances. The wider article library remains below.

• Funding the legal work

  Can your spouse contribute to your divorce legal costs?

  Understand contribution-to-costs applications, the financial information to prepare and practical next steps when your spouse can outspend you.

  Rule 43 and interim relief

• Delays and repeated applications

  Divorce delays and repeated applications: responding to litigation abuse

  Repeated divorce applications can drain time and money. Learn how to document the pattern, distinguish legitimate disputes and discuss proportionate remedies.

  Contested divorce assistance

• Support after divorce

  Spousal maintenance after divorce: planning for support and independence

  A clean break is not an automatic end to support. Understand spousal-maintenance evidence, time-limited arrangements and settlement questions.

  Divorce settlement advice

• Concerns about assets

  Worried your spouse is moving assets? What an anti-dissipation application needs

  Concerned about assets being sold or concealed during divorce? Understand why evidence of dissipation matters and what to prepare for legal advice.

  Advice on disputed divorce issues

Need advice rather than further reading? Speak to HRA's divorce-law team in Norwood, Johannesburg. Divorce lawyers in Johannesburg · Received divorce papers?