Family law practitioners in Ghana have received from the Supreme Court two (2) premature Christmas gifts in the form of Ayishetu Abdul Kadiri v. Abdul Dwamenah (J4/36/2024) [2025] GHASC 16 (delivered in March 2025) and Mrs. Abena Pokua v. Yaw Kwakye (J4/17/2025) [2025] GHASC 45 (delivered in July 2025). These premature gifts in the form...
Article 22(1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana requires that reasonable provision should be made for surviving spouses out of the estate[i]of a deceased spouse whether or not the deceased spouse died having made a will. Consequently, the Supreme Court in Akua Marfoa v Margaret Agyeiwaa[ii] held that reasonable provision should be made from the estate of...