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KWAKU NYANTEH
V.
ROSE NYANTEH

(2015) JELR 107474 (HC)

High Court 26 Nov 2015 Ghana
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- The petitioner filed a petition for the dissolution of the marriage and requested various orders, including visitation rights for the children. - The petitioner claimed that the marriage had broken down due to the respondent's defamation,

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO BDMC 471/2013
Judges:DORIS BEMPONG, J

JUDGMENT 


The Petitioner herein filed a petition praying the Court for the dissolution of the marriage  between the parties by this court thus; 

(a) That the marriage between the parties be dissolved and any such orders as  the court may deem fit 

(b) That petitioner’s children Rachel and Kenneth Nyanteh be made to spend  their holidays with him and visitation rights over the rest of the children. 

According to the petitioner the marriage had broken down beyond reconciliation and he  could not be expected to live with the respondent as man and wife. The parties were married under the ordinance in 1998 and cohabited at New Achimota in Accra. They were blessed  with five children all of whom have attained majority. 

It is the petitioner’s contention that the respondent has made it a habit of defaming,  embarrassing and incessantly accusing him of infidelity and has often subjected him to  physical abuse and once bundled him off to the psychiatric hospital under the pretext that he was not…

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