Psychiatric assessment for Joburg dad in maintenance battle

11 October 2020 - 00:00 By alex patrick

A Johannesburg father who earns R147,000 a month says he can't afford to pay R15,000 monthly maintenance for his two sons. Now he has been ordered by the court to go for a psychiatric evaluation to assess if, or to what extent, he suffers from a gambling addiction...

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