Prior to August 2010 only High Courts could adjudicate and grant divorces. However, since August 2010, Regional Courts have been granted the jurisdiction to adjudicate divorces too. This was to ease the burden on the High Courts and to prevent divorces being delayed due to overfull court rolls. So, since divorces are now much more accessible to members of the public and a divorce can be done by any party who is willing to deal with the admin and hassle that goes with it – why do you still need an attorney to get divorced? This article will deal with addressing this question. There are mainly two approaches to a divorce: A divorce can be either contested or uncontested. The former means that the parties are arguing about the division of assets and/or care, contact of children and maintenance and/or the payment of pension interests to name but a few. The latter means that the parties are (more or less) in agreement with all the issues in the divorce and are able to reach an a