Results for "Customary vs. Ordinance Marriage"
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Opinion
Harmonizing Customary Practices and Statutory Law: The Need to Amend Ghana’s Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) to Recognize and Enforce Customary Offences and Sanctions Across Ghanaian Communities
Kofi Annan and Nana Adwoa Serwaa Dua-Adonteng Esq.
General
Marriage by proxy legitimate under Ghana’s Customary Law – legal practitioner
A private legal practitioner, Susanna Asaabea Nyampong, says marriage by proxy is legitimate under Ghana's Customary Law but has its limitations.
MYJOYONLINE
General
Asante Customary Marriage: The Legal Obligation for Men to Pay Their Wives' Debts
By embracing Customary Marriage, couples not only honor their cultural heritage but also strengthen the financial responsibilities of husbands toward their families
MarryRight Ghana
Courts
Customary marriage dissolution :Presenting drinks, same being accepted by family not enough – Court
"Applying the personal law of the parties, which is the Akan customary law, I find that the customary marriage between the parties was not dissolved in accordance with the customs of Akropong where the Petitioner hails from as there was a b...
DL News
Others
Who is the widow? – Kwame Boafo Akuffo Esq. writes
I prefer to state at the outset that my considered conclusion is to the effect that “Odo Broni” has a distinct legal remedy available to her. Perhaps there is also another remedy which is independent of the distinct remedy and may be pursue...
DL News
General
Living with, having children with a man whose ordinance marriage is not legally untied is risky-Legal practitioner advises ‘side chicks’
It does not matter if the man left her twenty years, went away, and did all kinds of things,”
DL News
General
You Don't Need More than $50 to Marry in Ghana
Contrary to popular belief, research from MarryRight Ghana indicates that the administrative cost of a legal marriage in Ghana is quite affordable, making it accessible to all, including those with modest incomes.
DL News
Supreme Court News
I am a wife, not ‘side chick’ — SC joins woman to divorce suit of ordinance wife
The decision was given in the case of Vida Yeboah v Dr Stephen Yeboah and Mercy Agyeiwaa, decided on 29 April 2026.
Richard Osei Boateng
General
Organising weddings at home illegal – Lawyer reacts to Nsiah-Asare’s advice
A private legal practitioner, Sylvester Assan says asking people to organise weddings at home, will be promoting illegal marriages.
DL News
Others
The principle of quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit
This article argues that the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit has increasingly been relied upon by litigants as a shield to establish claims of possession through physical acts upon land, thereby exposing potential purchasers who f...
ENK Danquah-Acheampong, LLM, BL, LL.B. Lawyer | Legal Researcher | Author
Courts
Full reasoning of the Kumasi High Court in the Akosua Serwaa, Odo Broni widowhood case
In a 49-page judgment delivered on November 25, 2025, the court, presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur, found that Akosua Serwaa had failed to meet the legal burden of proof required to establish the validity of the cla...
DL News
Opinion
Contemplating Appeal of Widow Wars: Can Daddy Lumba’s Legendary Love Story Survive the Courtroom? A Comprehensive Analysis of the High Court Judgment in Suit No. GJ12202026
The High Court judgment in Suit No. GJ12202026 upheld the validity of a customary marriage over a contested foreign civil marriage, emphasizing evidentiary shortcomings in proving the latter. The article evaluates the court’s reasoning and...
Kofi Annan
Opinion
The Land Act: A Model For Integration Of Customary Law Into A Modern Legislation
Ghana’s Land Act, 2020 exemplifies a landmark effort to integrate customary law into modern statutory land governance by codifying indigenous principles, promoting fiduciary accountability, and ensuring legal recognition of customary intere...
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Courts
Check out the court’s reasoning on Asamoah Gyan marriage annulment(FULL JUDGMENT)
The court therefore made a finding of fact per her passport, BECE records, and a WAEC witness thus affirming her claim that she was actually seventeen(17) years old at the time of her marriage to Eugene.
DL News
Africa
Zimbabwe: New marriage law give 'girlfriends' inheritance rights
Unlike in the past, the new law recognizes civil partnerships, which are not marriages but are recognized only for property sharing.
AllAfrica
Africa
Divorcing couples don't have equal rights to assets-Kenya Supreme Court
Declaring that the 50:50 formula is not absolutely applicable, the top court stated that in case of divorce, each party should leave the marriage with property he or she acquired during the union though a spouse may get more based on his or...
nation.africa
Others
Calling woman 'Illegitimate wife', 'faithful mistress' misogynistic: Indian SC
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, and Augustine George Masih took a strong objection to the use of such words by the Bombay High Court in its 2004 judgment.
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