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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has rejected a man’s plea to have his maintenance obligations towards his ex-wife revoked on the basis that, according to him, she earns up to R153 000 a month.<\/p>\n

This judgment was delivered on 9 January after Judge Stuart Wilson gave it “careful consideration” and found that the man’s case was rooted in “speculation”.<\/p>\n

According to court papers, the man’s obligation to pay interim maintenance to his ex-wife was imposed in terms of a court order an acting judge had granted on 29 November 2019.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until recently that the man requested that the obligation be suspended.<\/p>\n

The judge granted his order on 18 October 2022.<\/p>\n

The woman was allowed to file financial disclosures that could be assessed alongside the man’s claim that the ex-wife was no longer in need of the maintenance.<\/p>\n

Her financial disclosures were filed on 17 November 2022, and the man filed a supplementary affidavit 13 days later.<\/p>\n

In his affidavit, the man alleged that his ex-wife no longer needed maintenance because she worked made between R88 000 and R153 000 per month as an escort.<\/p>\n

However, the woman denied the allegations, saying her income as an escort did not exceed a few thousand rand a month.<\/p>\n

Wilson, who was not convinced by the man’s case, said his allegations were neither based on personal knowledge nor documents proving her earnings. Instead, they were based on a “series of inferences drawn on a private investigator’s report and a set of internet advertisements for [the woman’s] services”.<\/p>\n

The judge said the man had failed to take his case further and that he had relied heavily on inferences drawn from the private investigator’s report to press a series of beliefs that his ex-wife was being “dishonest” about her income and “hiding” additional bank accounts and sources of income from the court.<\/p>\n

As a result, the judge said the man’s case was unsupported by any direct evidence made under oath, making it an unsound foundation for a finding.<\/p>\n

Had the man proved his allegations, on a balance of probabilities, a material change in his ex-wife’s circumstances in the form of a substantially increased income, he would have succeeded in being relieved of his maintenance obligations, the judge said.<\/p>\n

“In order to succeed in being finally relieved of his maintenance obligations, [the man] had to allege and prove, on a balance of probabilities, a material change in [the woman’s] circumstances in the form of a substantially increased income.<\/p>\n

“When read in light of [his ex-wife’s] financial disclosures, [his] case, the evidentiary foundation of which was never expanded beyond the private investigator’s report and the internet advertisements, ultimately falls short of that standard,” Wilson found.<\/p>\n

He also refused the man’s application for the return of a vehicle made available for his ex-wife’s use.<\/p>\n

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