ALHAJI ABDULAI KWAME SHOWUMI vs MADAM FATIMA KROATIOKOR WILLIAMS

RULING By the instant application, the Applicant herein, VIDA NAA LAMILEY LAMPTEY seeks to join this divorce suit as Co -Petitioner. The grounds upon which the Applicant mounts the present application can be found particularly in paragraphs 6, 7, and 8 of the affidavit in support. According to the Applicant, she has been customarily married to the Petitioner herein with whom she has two children since 1986. She admits that she knew that the Petitioner was previously married to the Respondent under Customary Law but claims that the said marriage had, to the best of her knowledge been dissolved. She alleges that news of the Petitioner’s Ordinance marriage to the Respondent came as a complete shock to her since she was married to Petitioner and living with him as his customary law wife at the time the said ordinance marriage is supposed to have been contracted. She therefore contends that the said ordinance marriage if true, is in law null and void and on that basis applies.....