pt. 1. Law of persons. Introduction / Amanda Barratt -- Through the looking glass?: defining words and concepts in law / Amanda Barratt -- The beginning of legal personality / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- Minority: how age affects status and capacity / Amanda Barratt -- Sex and gender: status and capacity / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- Other factors affecting status and capacity / Morné Olivier and Razaana Denson -- Domicile / Amanda Barratt -- The end of legal personality / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- Law and the dead / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee. pt. 2. Family law. Introduction: family law in 21st century South Africa / Amanda Barratt and Wesahl Domingo -- Parent and child / Wesahl Domingo and Amanda Barratt -- Adoption, artificial fertilisation and surrogate motherhood / Wesahl Domingo -- Engagements / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- Requirements for civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- Void, voidable and putative marriages / Razaana Denson -- Personal consequences of civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- Marital property / Amanda Barratt -- Dissolution of civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- Grounds for divorce / Amanda Barratt -- Economic consequences of divorce / Amanda Barratt -- Children after divorce / Amanda Barratt and Wesahl Domingo -- Customary marriages / Amanda Barratt -- Religious marriages / Amanda Barratt and Razaana Denson -- Civil Union Act / Wesahl Domingo -- Domestic partnerships / Morné Olivier -- Domestic violence / Wesahl Domingo.