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OGUNJOBI
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OGUNJOBI

(2021) JELR 108913 (CA)

Court of Appeal 22 Jan 2021 Nigeria
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- The Appellant filed for dissolution of marriage against the Respondent before the Ogun State High Court in 2013. The Respondent cross-petitioned for dissolution, custody, maintenance, and partition of alleged jointly owned properties. - T

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Suit Number:CA/IB/196/2016
Judges:Jimi Olukayode Bada Justice of the Court of Appeal Haruna Simon Tsammani Justice of the Court of Appeal Folasade Ayodeji Ojo Justice of the Court of Appeal
Counsel:OTUNBA OLUMIDE AKINBINU with him, F. S. ADEGBESAN For Appellant(s) RESPONDENT COUNSEL ABSENT. For Respondent(s)

FOLASADE AYODEJI OJO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Ogun State High Court, sitting in Abeokuta in Suit No. AB/237/2013.

BETWEEN OGUNJOBI VICTOR BABAKEMI AND OGUNJOBI INNAKWE CHINYERE delivered on 12th February, 2016.

The Appellant took out a divorce petition against the Respondent before the lower Court wherein he sought for the dissolution of the marriage between him and the Respondent. The reliefs sought in the petition are as follows:

(a) A decree of dissolution of marriage on the ground that the marriage has broken down irretrievably in that

(b) Since the marriage the Respondent has behaved in such a way that the Petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with her.

(c) An Order granting the Petitioner the custody of the children of the marriage.

The Respondent filed an answer to the petition wherein she incorporated a cross petition in which she sought the following reliefs:

(a) A decree of dissolution of marriage celebrated be…

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