MR ROBERT DANIEL AINOO vs. MRS SABINA AINOO [2018]DLCA5094

Date	2018-06-27
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/4/18
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA5094

IRENE C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING)

LAWRENCE L. MENSAH) J.A.

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.

SAMUEL AGBOTTAH FOR THE PETITIONER/APPELLANT

KING DAVID ADDAI FOR THE RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT

[2018]DLCA5094
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MR ROBERT
DANIEL AINOO<o:p></o:p>(PETITIONER/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>MRS SABINA
AINOO<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
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CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/4/18&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: 27TH JUNE, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>SAMUEL
AGBOTTAH FOR THE PETITIONER/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>IRENE
C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING),
LAWRENCE L. MENSAH) J.A., A.
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>A.
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J.A<o:p></o:p>1. This appeal
is against the judgment of the High Court, Tarkwa, dated 30th
January, 2017. The appeal has arisen from a contest between the parties who
were once husband and wife as to how to adjust their property rights in the
assets acquired during the subsistence of the marriage. The petitioner/appellant
is a teacher by profession who rose to become an Assistant Headmaster and finally
Headmaster of Fiaseman Senior High School. The respondent/respondent on the
other hand is a trader who progressed into an astute business woman operating
several registered business enterprises.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>2. The brief
facts giving rise to the contest are that the petitioner/appellant, hereinafter
called the appellant and the respondent/respondent hereinafter called the
respondent married under the customary law at Nsuaem on 11th
November 1982. Subsequently, the customary marriage was converted to an Ordinance
Marriage under CAP 127 on 6th June 1982. At the time the petition
was filed for the dissolution of their marriage on 17th May 2010,
they had four issues.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>3. It was
the appellant who petitioned for the dissolution of the marriage on the known
ground that the relationship had broken down beyond reconciliation. The
respondent also cross-petitioned for the dissolution of the marriage. As the
parties did not contest the dissolution of the marriage, same was dissolved by
decree of the court on 2nd July 2010.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>4. In the
petition filed by the appellant he also prayed for ancillary reliefs including
settlement of property rights in respect of the following properties acquired
during the subsistence of the marriage, namely:-<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(i)&nbsp; A four-bedroom house at Nsuaem
christened “White House”.<o:p></o:p>