ANSAH vs. ANSAH

JUDGMENT OF OWUSU-ADDO J. The parties were married under the Marriage Ordinance, Cap. 127 (1951 Rev.) on 28 April 1963 in Kumasi. The petitioner then a spinster was described as a seamstress and the respondent was and still is a minister of religion. There are two children of the marriage, Clifford, aged eighteen years and Regina aged fifteen years. The petitioner was a mother of six children and the respondent had a son at the time of their marriage. The husband and the wife and children lived happily together during the first four years in Sekondi. Subsequently, the husband and the wife lived in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion which resulted in quarrels, taunting and accusations of adultery against the petitioner by the respondent. There is evidence that the husband subjected the wife to acts of indignities which resulted in the wife’s refusal to have sexual intercourse with him. Eventually their relationship degenerated to the extent that the wife found life impossible.....