{"id":200346,"date":"2017-06-28T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/fanus-jonck-explains-one-south-african-will-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T20:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:37:11","slug":"fanus-jonck-explains-one-south-african-will-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/fanus-jonck-explains-one-south-african-will-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanus Jonck explains why and when one should have a South African will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not just South Africans who need a will dealing with their South African assets, but also non-residents with South African assets. It is in fact advisable for everyone to have a will in each country where one has assets dealing specifically with the assets in that country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is because different countries have different laws on inheritance. It is also advisable if one has a property in for example, Russia or France, to have a will in the language of that country.<\/p>\n<p>My advice is for South African wills to be drafted in English. You could also draft it in Afrikaans of course, but remember that not everyone at the Master&#8217;s office understands Afrikaans fully. Rather err on the side of caution and draft it in English.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that you also mention in your will if you specifically prefer to be buried or cremated, as this is often a question that arises after death.<\/p>\n<p>Please stipulate to whom an inheritance should go if the beneficiary were to die before you (or at the same time as you).<\/p>\n<p>The Master will appoint only a South African person, that is living in South Africa, and who has experience in winding up estates as executor.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to contact Fanus Jonck [<a href=\"mailto:fanus@jonck.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fanus@jonck.net<\/a>] for advice on wills, inheritance and the tax implications thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not just South Africans who need a will dealing with their South African assets, but also non-residents with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":192281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[801,800],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-and-migration-news","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":801,"label":"FINANCIAL AND MIGRATION NEWS"},{"value":800,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Will.jpg",800,450,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Sue-Ann de Wet","author_link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/author\/sue-ann-de-wet\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":801,"name":"FINANCIAL AND MIGRATION NEWS","slug":"financial-and-migration-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":801,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":800,"count":200,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":801,"category_count":200,"category_description":"","cat_name":"FINANCIAL AND MIGRATION NEWS","category_nicename":"financial-and-migration-news","category_parent":800},{"term_id":800,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":800,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":494,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":800,"category_count":494,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Will.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Will.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}