Property crisis in second marriages

She says the issue is a concern in instances where people lose a spouse and the surviving spouse wishes to marry another partner.  Mosojane says the surviving spouse normally marries again with all the property they have accumulated from the first marriage, instead of dividing it and keeping some of it for the children from the first marriage.

"The property has to be divided and the other 50 percent should be put aside for the children even when they are adopted into the second marriage," she pointed out, adding that children normally suffer and do not have any means of survival when their parent's relationships cease or one parent, especially the biological one, dies.