Author Archives: Chipo Mahlangu

WILL WRITING AND FAMILY TRUSTS

  By Chipo Mahlangu* Death is never a welcome development, but it is inevitable, nevertheless. Acknowledging that death is real and inevitable is not failure or lack of faith but victory and pragmatism. It gives one the opportunity to think and plan objectively for the future. A discussion on Estate Planning shall be done hereunder in […]

UNDERSTANDING PROPERTY RIGHTS IN MARRIAGE IN THE  ZIMBABWEAN CONTEXT: THE NEW MARRIAGES ACT: CHAPTER 5:17

 By Chipo Mahlangu*  1. Background   1.1. On the 27th May 2022, the President of Zimbabwe passed into law a  new marriages law, the Marriages Act [Chapter 5:17]. It came into  operation on the 16th September 2022. The new marriages regime  consolidates the laws relating to marriages, introduces a qualified civil  marriage, provides for the recognition […]

SPOUSE CAN DISPOSE HIS OR HER PROPERTY BY WILL/  TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION TO WHOMEVER HE OR SHE CHOOSES:  CHIGWADA vs CHIGWADA &2 ORS SC 188/2020

 By Chipo Mahlangu*  1. Background   On the 28th December 2020 the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, the  highest Appellate Court in the country delivered a critical judgment  involving testamentary disposition of properties in terms of the  Zimbabwean laws thus putting to rest the question whether or not there  is a law which binds a spouse desirous […]