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CHIRSTINE DOE MENSAH
V.
EMMANUEL KOFI KUMODZI

(2016) JELR 108531 (HC)

High Court 16 Feb 2016 Ghana
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- The court dissolved the customary marriage, awarded custody of the child to the Respondent with reasonable access to the Petitioner, and ordered the Respondent to maintain the child. - Applying the principles in Mensah v. Mensah and Arthu

Case Details

Suit Number:BDMC 343/2014
Judges:MRS. MERLEY WOOD J.
Counsel:ROBERT YARTEY FOR THE PETITIONER RESPONDENT IN PERSON

JUDGMENT 

The wife Petitioner who seeks the dissolution of the marriage between herself and the  Respondent prays per the following reliefs: 

a. Conveyance from the Respondent to the Petitioner of such properties as the Court may  see fit to me. 

b. Custody of the child with access to Respondent. 

c. Permanent alimony. 

d. Respondent to maintain the child of the marriage. 

e. Any further reliefs the Court may deem fit. 

The Respondent who filed an answer did not file any reliefs but says she is not entitled to a share  of the properties acquired and she should not be given custody of the only child of the marriage. 

The Petitioner who was an Information Technology Instructor at a Senior High School says after  the customary marriage, they lived at Kpalime in Togo and that she stopped her teaching job and  assisted the Respondent in the preparation and sales of herbal medicine. She says when she left  the matrimonial home in March 2008 to inform her family of what had transpired, after  accu…

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