GIFTY ESINAM ADJEI vs. DANIEL AKPOR ADJEI [2019]DLCA8680

Date	2019-07-11
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO. H1/111/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA8680

P. K. GYAESAYOR JA (PRESIDING)

AMADU TANKO JA

AMA GAISIE JA

DAVID KWABENA ADADE BOAFO FOR APPELLANT

WISDOM ANTHONIO FOR RESPODENT

[2019]DLCA8680
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >GIFTY ESINAM ADJEI<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr>(PETITIONER/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
 mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">vs.<o:p></o:p>DANIEL AKPOR ADJEI<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT
 /APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
 ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 CIVIL APPEAL SUIT
 NO. H1/111/2018&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 11TH JULY, 2019<o:p></o:p>
 </div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>DAVID KWABENA ADADE BOAFO FOR APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 WISDOM ANTHONIO FOR
 RESPODENT<o:p></o:p>
 </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
 line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
 &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 P. K. GYAESAYOR JA
 (PRESIDING), AMADU TANKO JA, AMA GAISIE JA <o:p></o:p>
 </div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
 .0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
 none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
 solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>
 </div>GYAESAYOR, JA<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This is an appeal against the decision of the High
Court, Accra dated 31st October 2016.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The petitioner/respondent (hereinafter called
petitioner) was the wife of the respondent/appellant (who shall be called
respondent) and they lived together as husband and wife at Tebibiano at Teshie
Accra.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In her petition to the court dated 4th
December,2013 the petitioner sought the following;-<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
order for the dissolution of the ordinance marriage contracted between the
parties on the grounds that same had broken down beyond reconciliation.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
order directed at respondent to settle on the petitioner one half of the
parties’ matrimonial home located at Tebibiano, Teshie near Accra or to pay to
the petitioner one half of the monetary value of the same.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>