- Title
- The obligation of unmarried biological parents to provide financial support for their children: a contemporary assessment from a children’s rights perspective
- Creator
- Obi, Lauretta
- Subject
- Children's rights
- Subject
- Support (Domestic relations)
- Date
- 2021-07
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/22445
- Identifier
- vital:52322
- Description
- In South Africa, the compelling task of unmarried biological parents to provide financial support (in the form of paying monthly maintenance) to their children, as a matter of children’s rights, is intended to ensure the children’s economic and psychological well-being both in the present and future. This study seeks, within the private judicial system and socio-economic context, to explore the nature of children’s rights as they pertain to parental financial support and, the responsibilities of unmarried parents to provide financial support for their biological children until they become self-supporting. This is significant as many unmarried parents usually downplay their responsibilities towards ensuring the well-being of their minor children. Section 28 of the South African Constitution of 1996 enshrines it as a duty of parents to fulfil this aspect of their children’s fundamental rights and our courts apply these rules to the letter. The task of providing support to children basically rests with their birth parents as the primary care givers, and in the absence of these parents or, due to their inability, this legal obligation falls on the state.
- Description
- Thesis (LLM) -- Faculty of Law, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (143 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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