PART 1: Law of persons -- 1. Introduction / Amanda Barratt -- 2. Through the looking glass: defining words and concepts in law / Amanda Barratt -- 3. The beginning of legal personality / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee --4. Minority: how age affects status and capacity / Amanda Barratt -- 5. Sex and gender: status and capacity / Amanda Barratt , Jacques Mahler-Coetzee and Razaana Denson -- 6. Other factors affecting status and capacity / Razaana Denson -- 7. Domicile / Amanda Barratt -- 8. The end of legal personality / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- 9. Law and the dead / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- PART 2: Family law -- 1. Introduction: family law in 21st century South Africa / Amanda Barratt and Wesahl Domingo -- 2. Parent and child / Amanda Barratt and Wesahl Domingo -- 3. Adoption, artificial fertilisation and surrogate motherhood / Wesahl Domingo -- 4. Engagements / Jacques Mahler-Coetzee -- 5. Requirements for civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- 6. Void, voidable and putative marriages / Razaana Denson -- 7. Personal consequences of civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- 8. Marital property / Amanda Barratt -- 9. Dissolution of civil marriage / Amanda Barratt -- 10. Grounds for divorce / Amanda Barratt -- 11. Economic consequences of divorce / Amanda Barratt -- 12. Children after divorce / Amanda Barratt and Wesahl Domingo -- 13. Customary marriages / Fatima Osman -- 14. Religious marriages / Fatima Osman -- 15. Civil Union Act / Wesahl Domingo -- 16. Domestic partnerships / Amanda Barratt and Razaana Denson -- 17. Domestic violence / Wesahl Domingo.