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VERONICA OTOO
V.
EMMANUEL OTOO

(2017) JELR 108659 (HC)

High Court 7 Jul 2017 Ghana
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- The wife seeks the dissolution of the customary law marriage contracted with the Respondent. - The wife seeks various reliefs, including the dissolution of the marriage, settlement of the matrimonial home and properties, maintenance, alim

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO BDMC/410/2013
Judges:MRS MERLEY WOOD J.
Counsel:EVELYN DUKU WITH BRIGITTE AMPADU FOR ISRAEL ACKAH FOR PETITIONER; EFFIBA AMIHERE FOR RESPONDENT.

JUDGMENT

WOOD, J.

The wife/Petitioner seeks the dissolution of the customary law marriage contracted with the  Respondent in August 1974. 

The Petitioner seeks the following reliefs as per her Petition: 

a. An order dissolving the said marriage on account of extreme cruelty of the  Respondent. 

b. That the matrimonial home and the properties in Kasoa be settled on the Petitioner.

c. That the Respondent be made to pay maintenance to the Petitioner from August 2004  to the day the marriage is dissolved. 

d. That the Petitioner be awarded a lump sum of alimony payment in the sum of  GH¢100,000.00. 

e. That the court should determine an equitable share in favour of the Petitioner in  Ostenfield Enterprise. 

f. That all household chattels be settled on the Petitioner. 

g. That the Respondent be made to bear the legal cost incurred by the Petitione The Respondent on the other hand prays for the following reliefs: 

a. An order for a declaration that the house he built on his family land of Obrakyere…

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