Court rejects dissolution of 43-year-old marriage in Akwa Ibom

An Akwa Ibom State High Court successful Uyo, connected Friday, November 13, dismissed a petition seeking to dissolve a matrimony and narration spanning implicit 43 years for deficiency of substance.

It ruled that the deficiency of emotion and respect betwixt spouses is not capable grounds for the dissolution of a marriage.

The court, presided implicit by Justice Archibong Archibong, successful suit fig HU/4D/2023, Ernest Ekpenyonh Emah v. Grace Ernest Emah, held that the petitioner, Ernest Emah, failed to found the facts required nether Sections 15(2)(c) and 16(1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act to warrant the dissolution of the marriage.

The justice maintained that though the instrumentality provides circumstantial grounds and conditions upon which a matrimony whitethorn beryllium dissolved, the petitioner neither pleaded the indispensable facts successful his petition nor provided capable grounds to found them.

He further emphasised that a wide declaration that a matrimony has breached down irretrievably, without impervious of the legally recognised circumstances supporting specified a claim, is insufficient to secur...