MERCY ANSONG vs. FRANCIS KWADWO FRIMPONG

OWUSU-ANSAH, J.A. The basic issue for determination in this appeal is: whether or not the learned trial judge was right in ordering [a] that the Petitioner be entitled to a joint interest with the husband and shall have ½ of the Matrimonial home. [b] And that House no. A. 135/21, SSNIT Flat Dansoman, Accra be valued by Lands valuation Board and the half interest of the Petitioner be bought out by the Respondent or vice versa; and [c] that the Respondent be ordered to make a lump sum payment of ¢20 million [Twenty Million Cedis] to the Petitioner. The Petitioner was married customarily to the Respondent at Abetifi, Kwahu, in March 1974. After the celebration of the said marriage the parties co-habited at Nkawkaw and later moved to Accra in 1984. The marriage floundered. And on the 19th June, 2001, the Petitioner filed a Divorce Petition praying the court for the following reliefs. [a] Dissolution of the marriage between the parties; [b] Settlement of the matrimonial ho.....