Child Custody In South Africa And The Childrens Court

As a result of the extreme workload backlog experienced by the inadequate number of Family Advocates dealing with a high volume of child custody cases in South Africa, the child Magistrates handling all these cases in the Children’s Court are too inexperienced to arrive at the correct guardianship decision affecting the life of the child or children involved. To further complicate the effectiveness and efficiency of the decisions made with respect to these cases, social workers are now also becoming involved in making these delicate and far reaching decisions on behalf of the parents and children. This is completely undesirable and unwanted as most of these social workers are very inexperienced and definitely unskilled and inadequately trained to deal with the correct and appropriate placement of children to the correct parent or guardian.

Ivan Zartz, an experienced and successful child custody attorney in Johannesburg South Africa, realises that this state of affairs leads to a ‘hit and miss’ type of allocation of children to the correct guardians or parents. However, there are of course a number of Magistrates in some areas in South Africa who thoroughly understand the current Children’s Law and who also make the right decisions when allocating correct guardianship rights in child custody cases. Nevertheless, there are also some inexperienced Magistrates who have been employed in certain other divisions that are consequently making the wrong decisions when choosing which parents to allocate respective child custody rights to. According to Ivan the Magistrate’s Court allows South African citizens more admission into these courts because they are affordable to the average South African compared to the Supreme Court where it is very expensive to have a child custody case heard and finalised.

People who are getting divorced and realise that they will soon enter a child custody dispute with regards to the correct allocation of their children to the appropriate parent need to understand that the choosing the Children’s Court is a risky way to have their disputes settled. The best route to go for the sake of parents and children involved in a child custody disagreement is to become involved with a special Family Court that will be presided over by Magistrate’s, Judges and experts, such as social workers, skilled in Family Law. According to Ivan Zartz, the only way the current undesirable situation will be improved is by insisting on better education of the legal advisors involved in all child custody cases in South Africa together with the creation and implementation of sound legally acceptable and approved structures.

Visit http://ivanzartzattorneys.co.za/child-custody to contact him and his attorneys in Johannesburg to solve your child custody issues.