PM // RM - SUCCESS STORY FOR THE KIDS
In April 2012, I met PM at Randburg Court where she asked me to help her with her divorce. So we set up a consult and she brought her two children with her, P and S. At the time, she mandated me in respect of an unopposed divorce and thus I drafted a settlement agreement and sent it to her husband, RM, on 5 April 2012 which was just before the long Easter weekend. It was over this weekend when all the drama started. At the time, PM had only recently relocated up to Johannesburg (with P and S) while RM still lived in Durban. PM (in good faith) agreed to let RM take the kids to Durban for the Easter weekend so RM came up to JHB to fetch them and he flew down with them down to Durban. However, on the Saturday, RM had indicated to PM that he would not be returning the children to her. So we prepared an urgent application to have the kids returned to her care. However, client ended up going to Durban with her folks to try fetching the children herself. What transpired thereafter was...