MRS. AKOSUA BIAMA ABOAGYE NKANSA VS DANIEL KWABENA NKANSAH
October 10, 2022
HIGH COURT
GHANA
CORAM
- HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE CYNTHIA WIREDU
Areas of Law
- Family Law
- Property and Real Estate Law
October 10, 2022
HIGH COURT
GHANA
CORAM
AI Generated Summary
In the Ghana High Court, Justice Cynthia Wiredu issued a final divorce judgment dissolving the marriage after assessing the petition, answer, and cross-petition alongside the evidence, finding irretrievable breakdown. The court cancelled the marriage certificate (license RGM 805/2007) and adopted the parties’ terms of settlement filed on 17 March 2022. Those terms granted custody of the children to the petitioner with periodic, reasonable access to the respondent, required the respondent to pay GH2,500 monthly maintenance retroactive to November 2020 and to share childrens medical expenses equally, and obligated the respondent to bear half of school fees. The court also adopted the respondents relinquishment of claims to property No. K.C. 21, Kumsarck Estate, Oyarifa, and any interest in the petitioners parents property at Asofan. Each party was ordered to bear his own costs.
I have considered the petition, the answer and the cross petition as well as the evidence on record and I am of the opinion that the marriage between the parties has broken down beyond reconciliation and same is hereby dissolved.
The marriage certificate with license number RGM 805/2007 is hereby cancelled.
The terms of settlement filed by the parties on the 17th March, 2022 is hereby adopted as part of the final judgment of the court. The terms are as follows:
a) Both parties to the marriage agree that their marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation and pray for an order of dissolution of the marriage from this Honourable Court.
b) That an order of custody of the issue of the marriage be made in favour of the Petitioner with periodic reasonable access on notice granted to the Respondent.
c) That the Respondent bears half the cost of the school fees (including books and other study materials) of the children of the marriage till they complete their education.
d) That the Respondent pays the maintenance of GHȻ2,500.00 monthly, as directed by this Honourable Court on 25th May, 2021 with retrospective effect from November 2020 when the Application for Maintenance was filed, for the upkeep of the children.
e) That both Parties share equally the medical expenses incurred on the children covering orthodox and non –orthodox.
f) That this Honourable Court adopts the Respondent’s relinquishment of claim to any share in property No. K.C. 21, Kumsarck Estate, Oyarifa, in the Greater Accra Region.
g) That this Honourable Court again adopts the Respondent’s relinquishment of interest in Petitioner’s parent’s property at Asofan, Greater Accra Region aforesaid.
Each party is to bear his own cost.
[SGD.]
H/L. JUSTICE CYNTHIA WIREDU (MRS.)
(JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT)