BEATRICE OYE-PLOKHAAR vs. STERIAN PLOKHAAR [2016]DLHC17415

Date	2016-01-22
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BMC 283/2012
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC17415

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWABENA ASUMAN-ADU

ROCKSON DAFEAMEKPOR ESQ.

MARILYN BORDE-KUOFIE ESQ.

GYAU KWAKU BAAFOUR ESQ.

[2016]DLHC17415
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BEATRICE OYE-PLOKHAAR<o:p></o:p>

(PETITIONER)<o:p></o:p>

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[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>

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<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT NO. BMC 283/2012&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: 22ND JANUARY, 2016<o:p></o:p>

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MARILYN BORDE-KUOFIE ESQ.
HOLDING THE BRIEF OF GYAU KWAKU BAAFOUR ESQ. FOR RESPONDENT &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; <o:p></o:p>

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CORAM&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; <o:p></o:p>

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWABENA
ASUMAN-ADU<o:p></o:p>

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The
petitioner herein, a Ghanaian citizen was lawfully married to the Respondent
herein, a Dutch national under the Marriage Ordinance (Cap 127) on the 3rd
day of January, 2009 in Accra. After the said marriage the parties co-habited
at Mariville Home at Manet Courts in Accra. They have had one issue, Master
Sterian Plokhaar Junior
who was aged 2 ½ years at
the time the petition was filed.<o:p></o:p>

The petitioner contends that the marriage between
the parties has, however, broken down beyond
reconciliation on account of the respondent’s
violent and unreasonable behavior as well as his promiscuous
and adulterous nature to the extent that the petitioner cannot reasonably be
expected to continue to live with him. The petitioner, therefore, on 1st
June, 2012 commenced the instant
action by filing a petition
praying for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>

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