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GIFTY ESINAM ADJEI
V.
DANIEL AKPOR ADJEI

(2019) JELR 64250 (CA)

Court of Appeal 11 Jul 2019 Ghana
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- The case is an appeal against a High Court decision in Accra, dated 31st October 2016, concerning a divorce and property settlement between a husband and wife. - The wife (petitioner) sought dissolution of the marriage, claiming it had br

Case Details

Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO. H1/111/2018
Judges:P. K. GYAESAYOR JA (PRESIDING), AMADU TANKO JA, AMA GAISIE JA
Counsel:DAVID KWABENA ADADE BOAFO FOR APPELLANT,WISDOM ANTHONIO FOR RESPODENT

JUDGMENT

GYAESAYOR, JA

This is an appeal against the decision of the High Court, Accra dated 31st October 2016.

The petitioner/respondent (hereinafter called petitioner) was the wife of the respondent/appellant (who shall be called respondent) and they lived together as husband and wife at Tebibiano at Teshie Accra.

In her petition to the court dated 4th December,2013 the petitioner sought the following;-

a. An order for the dissolution of the ordinance marriage contracted between the parties on the grounds that same had broken down beyond reconciliation.

b. An order directed at respondent to settle on the petitioner one half of the parties’ matrimonial home located at Tebibiano, Teshie near Accra or to pay to the petitioner one half of the monetary value of the same.

c. An order directed at the respondent to settle on the petitioner one half share of all other properties acquired by the parties or by the respondent during the subsistence of the marriage or pays one half of the monetary valu…

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