An Accra-based lawyer, Paul Atitsogbui Parker, has urged women to force men to register customary marriages under the ordinance marriage laws to prevent them from taking extra women (wives) at their pleasure.
Speaking on Adom TV’s legal education programme, “me wo case anaa”, Mr. Parker urged Ghanaian women to register their customary marriages under ordinance marriage and not under the PNDC Law 112.
According to him, registering your marriage under the PNDC Law 112 does not make your marriage a valid one in the sight of the law.
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The lawyer’s comments follow the case of a depressed woman whose husband has gone in for another woman to whom he is now legally married.
The window existed for the man to marry because his first marriage was a customary one, granting him the legal space to marry another woman.
But Lawyer Parker explained that the marriage should have gone through a conversion.
“The marriage did not go through ‘conversion’”, he explained, adding that customary marriage allows a man to marry as many as he can.
Explaining what constitutes a converted marriage into the ordinance based on a question posed by host Afia Pokua, he said signing at the court and the 21-day of public notification are the main keys to tell a genuine conversion of marriage.
Lawyer Parker urged everybody, especially women to register their marriages at the court under ordinance marriage and not under PNDC Law 112 so they don’t find themselves wanting at the end.
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Please according to this there would be no more married in the near future, because the women will take advantage of the system by denying men so many things as a wife be the law will favor them.
Men should also watch their backs before signing up for such contracts, some women are capable of kneeling your life right before you. They would end your life prematurely if they realize of such an advantage. There are some selfish greedy women out there guys. One step forward and two steps backwards with this our generational women.
Does that mean that once i wed my wife at church so that is all? She doesn’t visit me at my station and even during weekends as some women do. For 3 and more years, i do everything by myself yet i’m married. Is that what the law says? So i cannot marry in this situation? I will marry so that we can test the law.