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JUDITH ATAWA GATROR
V.
WISDOM KPORTSU

(2017) JELR 64661 (CA)

Court of Appeal 17 May 2017 Ghana
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- The case revolves around a divorce petition filed by a wife, a community nurse, against her husband, a graduate teacher, due to a disagreement over her decision to further her education. - The husband resisted the divorce, claiming the ma

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO. H1/04/2017
Judges:ADJEI J.A, SOWAH J.A , MENSAH J.A
Counsel:GODWIN T. K. T. KPOBLE FOR PETITIONER; NO REPRESENTATIVE FOR RESPONDENT.

JUDGMENT

L. L. MENSAH, J.A.

The Facts of the case:

The parties in this case who are husband and wife were married under customary law. The marriage was later solemnized under the Marriage Ordinance on the 17th of June 2012 at the Christian Assembly Church, Ho. While the Petitioner/Appellant wife is a community nurse with a diploma in midwifery, at Worawora, the Respondent/Respondent husband is a graduate teacher at Banda in the Krachie Ntsumburu District of the Volta Region. The Respondent/Respondent will be referred hereafter as Respondent.

Before the marriage, the Petitioner/Appellant who will hereafter be referred to as the Petitioner was offered admission to read midwifery at Dorma Ahenkro hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region for two years. This decision of the Petitioner to further her education was strongly disapproved of by the Respondent who said the Petitioner left him for school two weeks after the wedding. As a result of this, a serious misunderstanding arose between the couple. …

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