The KwaZulu-Natal High Court has granted a woman’s application to evict her parents-in-law from a property registered in her and her late husband’s names. Her mother-in-law is 72, while her father-in-law is 79. The case was heard on Monday, and judgment was delivered on the same day.
In April 2021, the wife and her husband agreed that the husband’s parents would occupy their property, a ground-floor unit in Phoenix. The condition was that the parents would pay the costs of the utilities they consumed, which they have diligently done throughout their occupation of the property. Unfortunately, the husband died on 5 August 2021, and the wife sought to remove her parents-in-law from the property, citing financial straits due to the loss of her husband’s salary.
To ease her financial burden, she resolved to sell the property. According to the court papers, the wife gave notice to her parents-in-law to vacate the property twice: first on 21 January 2022 and again on 9 October 2022. The elderly parents did not leave the property.
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The wife proceeded to put the property up for sale and claims she found a buyer. However, the sale fell through after her parents-in-law refused to vacate the property. She argued that her parents-in-law had sufficient resources to obtain alternative accommodation and that her two adult daughters would be able to assist them with alternative housing. The wife said she further attempted to have them relocated to a retirement centre, but they refused.
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