The Situation with Spoliation
12 July 2022, Yolandé Fourie
Family law
attorneys frequently deal with messy divorces. In some divorce matters, one of
the spouses can act irrational by... depriving his/her spouse from possession of
movable assets and even access to the communal home pending finalisation of the
divorce. It often happens that a wife comes home from shopping and finds her
house keys can no longer open the front door… Her husband changed the locks and
denies her access. What should she do?