Do you know your husband is presumed dead if you haven’t seen or heard from him for 7 years?. You can divorce him.
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Divorce is never a fun topic, but unfortunately the times we are in right now, divorce cases are getting higher by the day so there’s a need for the discuss.
first of all, for a divorce to take place, the law is clear that the marriage must be at least 2 years old. However, if the marriage is less than 2 years, you have to follow another procedure called “annulment”.
There’s one reason or ground why a marriage can be dissolved in Nigeria, and that is to show the Court that the “marriage has broken down irretrievably”. There are so many circumstances to show that a marriage has broken down irretrievably. They are as follows:
- Your spouse has wilfully and persistently refused to consummate the marriage. This basically means that one party has refused the other party’s sexual advances since the marriage ceremony, and as a result they have not had sex as husband and wife. (Knacks dey important☺️)
- Your spouse has committed adultery and you find it intolerable to live with him/her
- Your spouse has behaved in such a way that you can’t reasonably be expected to live with him/her (this includes acts of rape, sodomy, habitual intoxication, frequent crime conviction etc.
- Your spouse has behaved in such a way that you can’t reasonably be expected to live with him/her (this includes acts of rape, sodomy, habitual intoxication, frequent crime conviction etc.
- Your spouse has deserted you for a continuous period of at least one year immediately preceding your case for divorce. Desertion here means when the other party has abandoned the marriage.
- You have both lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and you both want a divorce. For this ground to be successful both parties must agree.
- Both parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least three years immediately preceding your case for divorce.
- A party has for a period of not less than one year, failed to comply with a decree or restitution of conjugal rights made by a court. This is when one party has gone to court previously to seek an order for the other party to perform his/her marital rights pertaining to sex.
You know say knacking dey very important and importanter 😁😆☺️
Your spouse has been absent long enough to be legally presumed dead (7 years). Under the Evidence Act, when someone is missing for up to 7 years, he/she can legally be presumed dead under the law.
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