MRS. AGNES OFORI ALIAS AGNES OWUSU vs. JOSEPH KWADWO OFORI ANTWI [2014]DLHC8200

Date	2014-11-09
Suit No.	SUIT NO. C5/25/09
Citation No.	[2014]DLHC8200

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JACOB B. BOON

MRS. EWURASI OKYERE-BAAFI FOR THE PETITIONER

E. A. ANSAH WITH OBOUR MENSAH FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2014]DLHC8200
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MRS. AGNES
OFORI ALIAS AGNES OWUSU<o:p></o:p>(PETITIONER)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JOSEPH KWADWO OFORI ANTWI<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. C5/25/09&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
9TH NOVEMBER, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MRS.
EWURASI OKYERE-BAAFI FOR THE PETITIONER 
E. A. ANSAH WITH OBOUR MENSAH FOR THE RESPONDENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HIS
LORDSHIP JUSTICE JACOB B. BOON<o:p></o:p>

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</div>The
parties herein converted their customary marriage into an ordinance marriage on
25th January, 2004. It was celebrated at the St. Peter’s Cathedral
Parish in Kumasi. The marriage was blessed with two issues namely: Augustine
Kwadwo Ofori Boateng and Philipa Asantewaa Ofori, 20 and 16 years of age
respectively at the time the petition was filed. On 16th December,
2008, the Petitioner (wife) filed a petition praying for the dissolution of the
marriage on the usual ground that it has broken beyond reconciliation. Several
reasons were particularized for the assertion and these include adultery on the
part of the husband, hereinafter called the Respondent. It may be relevant to
reproduce the reasons given in support of the assertion of the Petitioner that
the marriage is irreconcilable. They are stated in the petition as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That
the Respondent was seeing other women and threatened time and again to bring
such women to the matrimonial home to the notice of the Petitioner.<o:p></o:p>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That
the Respondent informed the Petitioner sometime ago that he has gone somewhere
and had been instructed neither to sleep with her nor eat her food until he
would be instructed otherwise.<o:p></o:p>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That
the Respondent has subsequently been bringing such women home to the notice of
the Petitioner as he had threatened. <o:p></o:p>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That
the Respondent has subsequently stopped performing his duties as a husband and
has also ceased from eating from the matrimonial home since one and a half (1 ½)
years ago<o:p></o:p><!--[if !supportLi</main>