BEAUTY KATEY vs. WILLIAM KWADWO KATEY

ACQUAYE, J. A. This appeal is in respect of the distribution of properties acquired during the subsistence of the marriage between the parties upon its dissolution by a High Court in Accra. The petitioner, a geodetic engineer, filed a petition for divorce against the respondent, a beautician in March 2011. The ordinance marriage celebrated on 18th August 1997 was blessed with three children born in April 2000, June 2002 and June 2007. In his amended petition, the petitioner accused the respondent of having deserted the matrimonial home claiming she had found a better and bigger penis which she was enjoying. The petitioner also accused the respondent of drunkenness, insulting the petitioner in public, instituting criminal and civil suits against the petitioner in District and Juvenile Courts, the latter of which granted custody of the two older children to the petitioner. According to the petitioner the respondent has caused him much anxiety, distress and embarrassment and that th...