Ceciley Oates

Senior Associate

Ceciley Oates is a Senior Associate in our Real Estate Law & Conveyancing practice.

Ceciley Oates

About Ceciley

Ceciley completed articles in 2008. She practiced as an Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary Public for Schumann Van Den Heever & Slabbert Incorporated and was head of their Deceased Estate Transfer Department. She practiced as an Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary Public for T.J. Maodi Incorporated where she started and headed the conveyancing and deceased estate administration departments. She moved onto to Roscher Incorporated Botes & Associates where she practiced as an Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary Public and was head of their conveyancing department. She joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Senior Associate in November 2022.

Areas of expertise

Experience

  • Conveyancing work in general, including normal day to day transfers, deceased estate transfers, dissolution of marriage transfers and commercial property transfers.

  • Opening of Sectional Title and Township registers, drafting and registration of certificates of registered titles, drafting and registration of servitudes and subsequent transfers

  • Notarial Cession of Leasehold Rights in the residential scheme at Waterfall.

  • Administration of Deceased Estates.

  • Drafting of Wills.

  • Drafting and registration of Antenuptial Contracts.

  • Legal authentication of documents to be used both in and outside of the Republic of South Africa.

  • Matrimonial and Family Law matters.

  • Road Accident Fund Litigation.

Credentials

Education 

  • LLB, University of Pretoria
  • Year of admission as an Attorney, Conveyancer & Notary Public: 2008
  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council

LANGUAGES

  • Afrikaans
  • English

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