{"id":2515,"date":"2020-10-28T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:52:36","slug":"collecting-maintenance-in-hard-times-threaten-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2020\/collecting-maintenance-in-hard-times-threaten-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Maintenance in Hard Times \u2013 Threaten Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>\u201cCompliance with court orders is always important. There is a particular scourge in this country of spouses, particularly husbands, failing to pay judicially ordered maintenance\u201d (extract from second judgment below)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting money out of serial maintenance defaulters is a notoriously difficult exercise, but even the most recalcitrant and cunning dodger will baulk at the prospect of being locked up for contempt of court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And our courts, mindful of their position as \u201cupper guardian\u201d to all children, have shown again and again that they will have no hesitation in acting firmly against the sort of bad-faith defaulters we are talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What must you prove?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must prove not only a deliberate breach of the court order, but also that the breach was \u201cwilful\u201d and in bad faith. Although normally in non-criminal matters the standard of proof required is \u201con a balance of probabilities\u201d, in contempt proceedings you have to prove bad faith on the much higher standard required for criminal convictions i.e. \u201cbeyond reasonable doubt\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Court in the second case below put it: \u201cIf, on a conspectus of all the evidence, it is a reasonable possibility that the husband\u2019s non-compliance was not wilful and mala fide, he cannot be subjected to criminal sanctions for contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, genuine inability to pay, which is no doubt more common now than it was before the COVID-19 lockdown, is a different matter altogether. We are talking here about dodgers who are able to pay but refuse to do so. A defaulter who simply cannot pay should apply for a variation of the court order. If the order stands, payment must be made &#8211; end of story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two recent High Court decisions illustrate \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First case: A \u201cbrazen\u201d defaulter\u2019s choice \u2013 pay or go to jail\u00a0<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A father had been ordered, per a 2017 divorce settlement agreement, to pay R15,000 p.m. maintenance for his two minor children. He stopped paying in early 2018 and by the time this matter reached court he had run up arrears of R537,499.\u00a0<\/li><li>In response to the mother\u2019s application to have him jailed for contempt of court, the father pleaded poverty \u2013 a standard ploy.<\/li><li>The Court was having none of that, and the mother had no difficulty in proving her case for contempt.\u00a0<\/li><li>Pointing out that the father was earning R147,000 p.m. (R83,000 net plus R10,000 to a provident fund), that he was paying R11,000 p.m. for a BMW and R14,000 p.m. on online gambling and trading, and commenting that \u201cfather\u2019s position is extraordinarily brazen\u201d the Court declared him to be in contempt of court.\u00a0<\/li><li>To avoid 30 days behind bars he must pay off the arrears in instalments in addition to keeping up his monthly maintenance payments. He also has to pay all legal costs on the punitive \u201cattorney and client\u201d scale.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Second case: Sorry, dogs, it\u2019s not quite the same for you<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although our courts naturally take a dim view of anyone disregarding any form of court order, jail time is not the only possible sanction. Thus, in another recent High Court case a fine (R20,000 conditionally suspended for three years) was imposed rather than a prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An acrimonious divorce action found a husband ordered to pay his wife on an interim basis for a variety of household expenses, including (the aspect that has captured most attention in the media) expenses relating to the couple\u2019s two dogs for dog food, a dog walker, and veterinary, medical, and pharmaceutical expenses.<\/li><li>The husband claimed a genuine misunderstanding of his obligations under the court order (not least regarding his various obligations vis-\u00e0-vis the dogs), a defence accepted by the Court in some regards but not in others.<\/li><li>He also claimed inability to pay as a result of the lockdown\u2019s effect on his company and his resultant reduction in salary \u2013 a defence rejected by the Court on the basis that he had \u201cfailed to put up evidence which should have been available to him to support a claim of unaffordability\u201d. Similarly, his counter-application to reduce the amount of cash maintenance payable failed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As to why the defaulter in this case avoided a prison sentence (as requested by his wife) the Court concluded that \u201cimprisonment is not called for. I am dealing with a first infraction, which is considerably narrower than what the wife alleged.\u201d One wonders whether another factor in that outcome might have been the fact that no children were involved, just a wife seemingly \u201cunattractively intent on extracting more than her \u2018pound of flesh\u2019\u201d and two pampered pooches. Certainly, the wife\u2019s failures led the Court to award the wife only 75% of her costs, and on the ordinary cost scale rather than on a punitive scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px;margin-top:40px\"><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> The 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 your professional adviser for specific and detailed advice.<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 12px;color: #ccc;text-align: right\">\u00a9 LawDotNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCompliance with court orders is always important. There is a particular scourge in this country of spouses, particularly husbands, failing to pay judicially ordered maintenance\u201d (extract from second judgment below) Getting money out of serial maintenance defaulters is a notoriously difficult exercise, but even the most recalcitrant and cunning dodger will baulk at the prospect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101014,"featured_media":2516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Collecting Maintenance in Hard Times \u2013 Threaten Jail Time &#8226; LawDotNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2020\/collecting-maintenance-in-hard-times-threaten-jail-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collecting Maintenance in Hard Times \u2013 Threaten Jail Time &#8226; LawDotNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cCompliance with court orders is always important. 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