Family & Parenting

FAMILY & PARENTING

Female employees have a right to four months maternity leave. This leave can start four weeks before the expected date of birth and the employee cannot be forced to go back to work for six weeks after the birth of the child. >

Getting a Maintenance Order (Service)

Parents have a legal duty to support their children. The parent who is the primary caregiver of the child has a right to apply to a Maintenance Court for an official demand that the other parent pay support. >

Enforcing a Maintenance Order (Service)

If the court has ordered that a parent must pay child support, it is a criminal offence not to pay. >

Giving up a Child for Adoption (Service)

Consent for an adoption of a child ends the relationship between the biological parents and the child and the biological parents have no parental responsibilities or rights to the child. >

Grant for Fostering a Child (Foster Child Grant) (Service)

A foster child is a child who is removed from their parents and legally placed in the care of foster parents, in terms of the Child Care Act. If you have been appointed a foster parent by a court, you can get a monthly ... >

Grant for Caring for a Young Child (Child Support Grant) (Service)

If you are the person responsible for looking after a child (you are the child's primary caregiver) and the child is younger than 18 years old, you can get a monthly payment from the government called a Child Support Grant. >

Care Dependency Grant (Service)

If you are the parent, guardian, foster parent or custodian of any child between the ages of 1 year old and 18 years old who needs full-time care because of mental or physical disability, you can get a monthly payment from the government called a ... >

Adopting a Child (Service)

Adoption is a legal way for an adult single person or couple - being unable to give birth to a child or wishing to bring another child into the family, for example - to become the legal parents of a child. When you adopt a ... >

Fostering a Child (Service)

Foster care is the placement of child, who needs to be removed from the parental home, into the custody of a suitable family or person willing to be foster parents. This is done by order of the Children's Court. >

Cape Town Child Welfare Society Website (Link)

The Help Kids site contains information on Child Welfare services and projects in the Cape Town area, including adoption and fostering. >

Getting Help: Maintenance is in the Best Interests of the Child (Public Information)

For maintenance assistance or enquiries please call 0800 220 250 or visit your nearest Magistrate's Court >

The content on this page was last updated on 13 December 2012