Court tells businessman dad to ‘step up and pay up for your children’

Divorced mom discovers that poverty-pleading ex has had a high-powered job since 2016

03 July 2023 - 16:47

A well-off businessman who pleaded poverty and failed to pay child support for his two children while he was employed as the COO at a national organisation has been ordered to step up by the Western Cape High Court. ..

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