{"id":12364,"date":"2026-01-06T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:49:16","slug":"your-top-10-legal-new-years-resolutions-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2026\/your-top-10-legal-new-years-resolutions-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Top 10 (Legal) New Year\u2019s Resolutions for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy New Year\u2019s resolution is to stop procrastinating. I\u2019ll start tomorrow.\u201d (Anonymous)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most New Year\u2019s resolutions are vague, unwritten, and destined to be forgotten in the first week of January\u2019s hustle and bustle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But please don\u2019t neglect this Top Ten list of legal issues that we\u2019ve put together for you. Focus on those that are important to you, taking a few minutes to write down exactly what action you\u2019ll take under each heading. Then set and diarise realistic deadlines to address each item:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: justify;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;vertical-align: top;line-height: normal;width: 100%;max-width: 900px;border-collapse: collapse;margin: 0px auto;border: 2px solid #4f6128;margin-bottom: 20px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n    <tbody>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"height: 60px;background-color: #4f6128;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;color: #ffffff\" colspan=\"3\"><strong style=\"text-align: center\">Top 10 Legal Issues for 2026<\/strong><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/will.png\" alt=\"Will icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"height: 95px;padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Update (or draft?!) your will.&nbsp;<\/strong>Check your executor\/s, guardian\/s, heirs and beneficiaries. Have there been any life events (marriages, divorces, deaths, births, new relationships, new business ventures, new tax changes, new assets or liabilities or anything else) that call for a change in your will? Should you consider making a foreign will as well as your local one? Update (or consider making) a Living Will\/Advance Medical Directive.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/estate.png\" alt=\"Estate planning icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Revisit your estate planning.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Are you still on track with your wealth building, your retirement planning, your corporate, trust and tax planning? Have you prepared and updated a file containing your will and all the other information and paperwork that your executors and loved ones will need when the time comes?<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/title.png\" alt=\"Property title icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Check your property affairs are in order.<\/strong> Make sure that your title deed is safely filed away together with your original purchase documents and receipts, as well as proof of subsequent capital improvements \u2013 you\u2019ll need all of these to calculate your CGT base cost when you come to sell. If you\u2019re a landlord or tenant, are all leases current, in order and easily accessible? If you co-own property, do you have an agreement in place laying out what each joint owner\u2019s rights and duties are, who pays what costs and when, and so on? Does it need updating?<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/cohabit.png\" alt=\"Cohabitation icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>If you cohabit with your life partner,<\/strong> do you have a full cohabitation agreement in place? Does it need amending or updating? Does it mesh with both of your wills?<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/contracts.png\" alt=\"Contracts icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Review all your contracts:<\/strong> personal, employment, suppliers, clients etc. Have there been any changes in the law or in your circumstances that call for renegotiation or amendment? Are all these contracts compliant with any new legal developments?&nbsp;<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/compliance.png\" alt=\"Compliance icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Review all corporate and tax compliance matters.<\/strong> Are you up to date with CIPC, tax and other returns? Do you need to update your POPIA and PAIA documentation? All the red tape and deadlines out there are as annoying as they are time consuming, but compliance is vital.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>7<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/disaster-2.png\" alt=\"Disaster recovery icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Make sure you have a disaster\/continuity plan in place.<\/strong> This should address risks like cyberattacks, data loss, business disruptors (AI springs to mind), load-shedding, natural disasters, another pandemic \u2013 the list is endless.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/insurance.png\" alt=\"Insurance icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Business and personal insurance. <\/strong>Are you sufficiently covered? Are any changes needed? It\u2019s amazing how easy it is to forget to remove that premium-guzzling e-bike you sold on Marketplace, or to add your expensive new cell phone. Now\u2019s your chance to correct that.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/cyber.png\" alt=\"Cybersecurity icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Perform a full cybersecurity audit and health check. <\/strong>Check password protection, multi-factor authentication and similar safeguards, email and electronic communication security, defence against malware, phishing, ransomware and the like, staff and family awareness training etc. If you have crypto holdings, double check that they are secure.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"width: 30px;padding: 10px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/td>\n            <td style=\"width: 80px;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;padding: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dotnews.co.za\/code\/Uploads\/Article\/2025\/LDN-December\/questions.png\" alt=\"Questions icon\" width=\"60\" style=\"border: 0;width: 60px;max-width: 100%;height: auto;vertical-align: middle;margin: 0 auto\"><\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 10px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Anything else?<\/strong> Brainstorm with your family, and with us, everything else that could be important to you.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step into 2026 secure in the knowledge that all the legal aspects of your life are in order.&nbsp;<strong>And remember that we\u2019re always here to help when you need us!<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-top: 1px solid #dedfe0!important;padding-top: 20px!important;margin-top: 20px!important\">Disclaimer:\u00a0The information provided herein should not be used or relied on as professional advice. No liability can be accepted for any errors or omissions nor for any loss or damage arising from reliance upon any information herein. Always contact us for specific and detailed advice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u00a9 LawDotNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy New Year\u2019s resolution is to stop procrastinating. I\u2019ll start tomorrow.\u201d (Anonymous) Most New Year\u2019s resolutions are vague, unwritten, and destined to be forgotten in the first week of January\u2019s hustle and bustle. But please don\u2019t neglect this Top Ten list of legal issues that we\u2019ve put together for you. 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