Part 1: Law of persons
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Through the looking glass? - Defining words and concepts in law
Chapter 3: The beginning of legal personality
Chapter 4: Minority: How age affects status and capacity
Chapter 5: Sex and Gender - Status and capacity
Chapter 6: Other factors affecting status and capacity
Chapter 7: Domicile
Chapter 8: The end of legal personality
Chapter 9: Law and the dead
Part 2: Family Law
Chapter 1: Introduction: Family law in 21st century South Africa
Chapter 2: Parent and Child
Chapter 3: Adoption, Artificial fertilisation and surrogate motherhood
Chapter 4: Engagements
Chapter 5: Requirements for civil marriage
Chapter 6: Void, Voidable and putative marriages
Chapter 7: Personal consequences of civil marriage
Chapter 8: Marital property
Chapter 9: Dissolution of civil marriage
Chapter 10: Grounds for divorce
Chapter 11: Economic consequences of divorce
Chapter 12: Children after divorce
Chapter 13: Customary marriages
Chapter 14: Religious marriages
Chapter 15: Civil union act
Chapter 16: Domestic partnerships
Chapter 17: Domestic violence
Bibliography
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Index