The court set aside the life-rights committee’s decision to evict him.
A 78-year-old widower in Alberton narrowly avoided eviction from his retirement village after the High Court ruled that surviving spouses cannot be evicted due to paperwork errors.
The court set aside the life-rights committee’s decision to evict him.
It is a judgment that shines the spotlight on how life‑right operators need to treat spouses, says Johlene Wasserman, Director and Head of Community Schemes and Compliance at law firm Van Deventer Dowlath & Marx Incorporated.
She explained that when Mrs AB bought a life-right at the NG Kerk Brackenhurst retirement village in 2010, she was divorced and listed no spouse. Nine years later, she married Mr HJB, who moved in and lived there without anyone objecting.
