There are number of child maintenance courts in Johannesburg.
Below are local maintenance courts that could be close to your area:
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To claim child maintenance/child support, you should visit your closest maintenance court in your area.
Find out where about is the closest magistrates’ court in your area and pay them a visit. The following will be required:
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In attempt to claim maintenance, you will have to fill in a detailed form stipulated by the Magistrate’s Court. This form shall request all details regarding your income and expenses – lighter expenses such as entertainment and pocket money are also included. Expenses of parents and the child are however, listed separately.
The court however, will take a number of factors into consideration when stipulating the amount of maintenance that should be paid. Both parent’s income will be analysed and the court’s decision will be based accordingly.
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just some advise I suspect the child I am currently paying maintenance for is not my child what can I do I order to that first I verify the paternity of the child legal and secondly what the steps to follow in order to settle this matter legal as well
I want to go to maintenance court and do the application my problem is that I don’t know the physical address/ work address of the person but I have his phone numbers, can they summoned him using phone please help
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I have been receiving maintenance from my ex husband but now hes coming up with excuses and i need to apply for him to be garnished. we work for the same company. Whats is the process
Good Day,the father of my two kids is maintenance payer but when the children were on holiday with him during the past winter holidays he defaulted.Reason being that they were with him so he felt that automatically wouldnt have to pay.Can you please assist me on what steps I should take regarding this matter.
Hi am currently five months pregnant and the person responsible said he doesn’t want anything to do with me and the baby.He suggested I have abortion of which I didn’t agree with it.U don’t want to leave this matter till it late.Hes working and can afford to support the child am currently unemployed @the moment it hard having to go clinic and visit a gynaecologist now and again.My worry is that he can change the address where he’s currently staying but I know where he works a big company.I don’t have the energy to fight or neither to call him.It clear to me that I’ve been sleeping with an animal.Please if you can assist
Hi my name is Thabo I have a child with my ex girl friend but we broke up when the child was 1 year old now since then it is hard for me to see the child I have asked both my ex girlfriend and her mother to go with me to family court because Its a must as the father of the child to maintain or support the child but they refused and asked me to give them money they can do everything but I don’t want that I need everything to be in papers and done legally
please assist I also want to spend some time with my child
The father of son he pay 1000 amonth. When ask if he can increase the money. He said not gone pay extra
Mornings, when a person is garnished, when does the next person get her money after pay day?
hi im magdie m 32 yrs with 2 kids ,working as a contract, and doing office administration course ,,so does my father has powers to drop the maintannance?thank u
Hi I received a letter from the family court to pay for child maintenance, but the children are not mine. I was in a relationship with the lady and now she claim child support. How do I ask the court for a paternity test so I can proof to the court these children is not mine?
good day.need help want to apply for maintenance but the problem its that i don’t know where my baby daddy work right now, because he has been fired from the work place he was working before but i guess he find another job cause after the birth our baby he started to fight with me nd change the number,address as well.i used to talk to him via email and he threaten me.
he block me every where.can i get help please
My brother is paying maintenance but is not allowed to see the child except if he comes with our parents so how do you prepare a Affidavit to complain about the situation
Greetings I was supposed to be in court by the 14th of November 2018 for child DNA as the they say am a father but I couldn’t be there because I didn’t have enough money for traveling from Cape Town and to Mount Frere, so I need your advice what can I do to make things right before they arrest me
What can happen to me if I didn’t attend child maintenance DNA test in court
My kids are staying with my ex wife and I see them every second weekend and we also alternate school holidays. Do I still have to pay maintenance when the kids are with me for December holidays for an example?
Hi. I am on a MAINTAINANCE trial for 2years now with the baby father, he was garnished R3000.00 for a 2year old child and still do not receive it since 3months ago.
He gets same salary as of mine yet he has loans and lies to have siblings paying for his lifetime investment s. Do I stand a Chance to win again because he’s against this garnish order and has applied for a set aside.
Please advice
Want to open case against father of child now for not paying maintenance since birth.
He is currently serving currently in prison and will be out next month on probation.
What impact does this case have on his probation? will he go back to jail?
How true is it that if the father dies and yet still owing maintenance, in the event of death, the life policy will treat the maintenance court as a creditor and money will be paid? as opposed to not getting anything because child was not listed as a beneficiary…
I want to open a case for maintenance for the father of my child, he stop paying maintenance because I now have a boyfriend. Does the fact that I earn more than him count?
morning the father of my child is unemployed and his wife is employed so that they are married incommunity of property can i take the wife to maintenance court?
Good day ive moved from Pretoria to Polokwane 4 yrs back and was not receiving maintenance money since then, I want to know if I can get the unclaimed money since then as I had family problems to make follow ups on that?
Good day ,i have filled a maintanace for two kids, at Atteridgeville court in Pretoria in 2017 April, first appearance was in September 2017, till this day am going up and down summoning my ex husband with dates, last 2018 August they have sent a garnish to his work and the verdict was he’s on contract they cannot garnish the persons, if I cannot be help by the court where should I go now.
I have a 4month daughter with a man who refuses to support her in any way. I have on many occasions tried reaching out to him to get him to commit to atleast something which he has countlessly failed to do. He insists on dna testing as he denies the child but will not commit to doing it… I have even gone as far as voluntaring to meet him half way after contacting a paternity testing facility. The problem I’m having now is that my daughter’s birth certificate is still pending at home affairs because i was subjected to a late registration because of personal reasons and then told it would take up to 6months for them to issue it out. I registered her when she was a month old.
My biggest issue right now is that I need financial assistance from him and I was told when I went to the family court that nothing can be done without the birth certificate.
I wanted to know if there could be another way to deal with this whole situation or better getting a court order that would subject him to actually taking the dna test so he can at least commit to supporting our daughter while we wait for the birth certificate? I just wanted to get advice or a way forward.
Good day all
My name is Noxolo and I have a son who is turning 4 years old in june and I am 26 years old, I would like to be advised on how to claim maintanance from the father because he says he is doing a learnership and I am also doing a learnership but I do everything I can for my son and most of the time I do everything for him, in the beginning when our son was still a new born baby and we were together he used to do everything for him but since we broke up he stopped doing things for him and waits for me to beg for him to do things for him and he does not even make time to see him or even call him can I please get advise on how to go about this im really stressed and confused.
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