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BOATEY
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AMPOFO BOATENG

(2025) JELR 115366 (HC)

High Court 30 Jul 2025 Ghana
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Suit Number:Suit No. C5/01/2021
Counsel:Richard Offin for the Petitioner

JUDGMENT

This is a wife’s petition for divorce on the ground that the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation. The parties were married under the Marriage Ordinance Cap 127 at the District Magistrate Court Akim Oda and the marriage solemnized at Christ Apostolic Church New Town Akim Oda on 9th April 2016.

From the processes filed the petitioner is a trader whilst the respondent is self-employed. There are no issues of the marriage. The petitioner citing unreasonable behaviour, seeks the following reliefs:

“a) That the marriage celebrated between the Petitioner and the Respondent be dissolved since same has broken down beyond reconciliation.

b) An order for equal share of H/No. EG-252-2723 Akwamu-Adoagyire /Nsawam or judicial sale of the said jointly acquired building.

c) Eighty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC80,000.00) as alimony.”

The pith of the petitioner’s case is as follows: She got married to the respondent under the Marriage Ordinance Cap 127 at the District Magistrate Court A…

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