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Duty of a petitioner praying for the dissolution of marriage

Facts of which its existence determines that a marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation

Facts that prove that a marriage has broken down irretrievably

Facts which the petitioner must prove to show that the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation

How a marriage is dissolved

The ground for the dissolution of a marriage

The rule that the court must disregard any period or periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate during which the parties to the marriage lived with each other as man and wife after the date of the occurrence of the final incident relied on by the petitioner

Unreasonable behaviour

8 subsidiary principles

What the petitioner must establish in an action for dissolution of marriage

Whether a court can dissolve a marriage upon statements by the parties that they were no longer interested in the marriage

Whether a customary marriage is dissolved upon the dissolution of the Ordinance marriage

Whether a long separation can ripen into dissolution of a marriage

Whether a marriage will be dissolved because the respondent consents to the dissolution

Whether a marriage will be dissolved where the parties have lived apart continuously for at least five years

Whether a marriage will be held to have broken down where parties have been unable to reconcile their differences

Whether a marriage will be sad to have broken down beyond reconciliation where the parties have not lived together as husband and wife for many years

Whether a party in a polygamous marriage can bring a petition for divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1971 Act 367

Whether absence of consortium is enough to decree the dissolution of a marriage

Whether an action for dissolution of marriage survives after the demise of one of the parties

Whether bigamy is sufficient to find that that a marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation

Whether consent of the respondent is sine qua non to decree the dissolution of a marriage

Whether dissolution of marriage will be automatically granted where one or more of the facts is established

Whether evidence must be led to enable the court determine whether a marriage as broken down beyond reconciliation

Whether impotence subsequent to the consummation of a marriage and childlessness are grounds for the dissolution of a marriage

Whether parties to divorce proceedings can consent to the dissolution of the marriage without a consideration of the evidence

Whether reconciliation is a bar to the presentation of a petition for dissolution of marriage

Whether the court or Judge must examine the evidence to determine whether the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation before decreeing a dissolution of the marriage

Whether the court will dissolve a marriage where the respondent has not contested the petition

Whether the petitioner must present evidence of an unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation

Whether the petitioner must satisfy the court that the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation where the respondent did not attend the trial

Whether the religious beliefs of the parties is a matter for consideration in divorce cases

Whether the respondent can withhold consent to a decree of divorce where the parties have not lived together for 4 years

Whether the resumption of cohabitation bars a party from petitioning for the dissolution of a marriage

Whether the standard of proof required in proof of breakdown of marriage is the same whether the marriage was solemnised in a church or not

Whether wilful refusal of a party to have sexual intercourse is a fact for dissolution of marriage

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