Category: Family Law
Loans and Jointly Acquired Properties: A Brief Note on Adjei v Adjei
Early on this year (on 21st April 2021), the Supreme Court in Peter Adjei v Margaret Adjei held that property acquired with a loan, which ... Read More
Domestic Violence in Ghana: An Analysis of Ghana’s Current Legal Regime
By: Claudia N.A. Coleman (Private Legal Practitioner) Physical spousal abuse became a regular theme in Media reports in the late 1990s, thus resulting in the ... Read More
Making a Case for the Enforcement of Prenuptial Agreements in Ghana
Introduction In 2014, Citifmonline.com reported a news item in which a family lawyer and former lecturer of the Ghana Law School, Dr. Kofi Adinkrah who ... Read More
Matrimonial Jurisdiction of the District Court – Settling the Jurisdictional Controversy.
Introduction Jurisdiction in law is fundamental. It is the power or authority upon which a person or a body acts. Without the requisite jurisdiction, a ... Read More
Can a Concubinage Relationship be Equated to a Valid Customary Marriage? The Decision in Mintah v Ampeyin in Retrospect.
Introduction Customary law has been defined under Article 11(3) of the Constitution 1992 as: “Rules of law which by custom are applicable to particular communities ... Read More
The Utility of Marriage of Mohammedans Ordinance Under the Current Ghanaian Legal Dispensation
Where the marriage is not registered within the prescribed one week period, or where the attendance of any of the persons whose signature is necessary ... Read More
Brief Note on Customary Divorce
Discussions on the types of marriages celebrated in Ghana have in recent times given the impression that persons married under the ordinance have more advantages than their counterparts married under customary law. Although this assertion may be true in some very limited instances1, spousal rights under the 1992 Constitution2 and some ... Read More
On the Constitutionality of the Presumption Of Advancement In Ghana
The law sometimes works in mysterious ways. And its principles are sometimes clearly out of date and out of touch with current realities. One of ... Read More
Overview: Distribution Of Marital Property In Ghana
Who gets what in divorce battles can be one of the most difficult decisions a judge will have to make. These proceedings tend to be ... Read More