This week’s question relates to a topless sunbather at a townhouse complex’s communal swimming pool.

Our reader recently accompanied her son, aged eight, and his friend, nine, to the pool, only to encounter the scantily clad lady.

She says there are many families with young children in the complex and she feels this is inappropriate behaviour.

The reader wants to know what the law says regarding the woman’s right to tan topless versus her right not to expose her son to it. Read more…

After a recent break-in our reader, who lives in a townhouse complex, was threatened with a fine by the chairman of the board of trustees, because her windows are permanently open.

He told her that open windows were a safety risk as they served as an invitation to burglars.

Our reader says the burglars did not obtain entry through an open window and that all of her windows are fitted with burglar bars. She wants to know if a fine is lawful. Read more…

She would like to know from our panel of experts whether the property could be registered in her name and the bond in that of her soon to be ex-partner?

Grant Howard from Kaplan Blumberg attorneys in Port Elizabeth says where people who own property together are married, there are many laws that regulate their joint ownership of property as well as their position in the event of a divorce or death of a party. Read more…

Ten einde toestemming hiervoor te bekom, moes sy ’n aansoekvorm invul, wat deur die trustees van die regspersoon goedgekeur moet word. Nog voor die aansoek voorgelê is, het die voorsitter (van die trustees) reeds aangedui dat sy nie dink dit ’n goeie idee is dat ons leser ’n hond aanhou nie. Read more…