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Our legal advice and services are based on 40 years of experience in the professional legal field. As a purely internet based legal consultancy business, we pride ourselves in personal, professional and efficient service at affordable rates and undertake to revert to our clients within 48 hours of their query being received by us.
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We recently assisted a purchaser who had privately bought a motor vehicle from another private individual as a seller.
The Toyota Corolla motor vehicle seemed at the time of the sale to be in good condition and the purchaser paid the seller the full purchase price of R 96000.00 by EFT and then took delivery of the vehicle. A short simple deed of sale was signed by both parties.
Everything seemed to be in order.
“No,” you cannot be held liable for payment of the property rates.
Herewith the real question: Can a seller be held to ransom after selling his/her property and applying for a rates clearance certificate for future municipal debts which may occur to the property involved?
Recently; we received the following query from a seller who had sold her house in Johannesburg.
“I have just sold my house and the conveyancers applied for a rates clearance certificate as it is required in the transfer process. The municipality has now requested me to pay the estimated rates until the end of their financial year, which will be months after my house has been transferred to the new owner; and they will not issue the rates clearance until I pay them the sum they want.
How can I be held to ransom for these future rates just because I need a rates clearance certificate now?”
"I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence. Is this true?"
Corporal Punishment:
Here is a query we received yesterday via email.
"I saw it reported recently that the spanking of your child has now been declared a criminal offence.
Is this true? Will this not result in an overloading our justice system even more than it already is?"
We all know that corporal punishment in any form in our schools has been outlawed for a long time.
But what is the situation at home?
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