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Divorce is not cheap, GH¢10,000 needed to start proceedings – Legal Practitioner

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Private Legal Practitioner Christian Lebrecht Malm-Hesse has revealed that divorce is expensive. He said people are trapped in bad marriages because they lack the money to go through the divorce proceedings. According to him, on the average, one needs a minimum of not less than Ten Thousand Cedi (GHC 10,000) to commence divorce proceedings in […]

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25% of marriages registered at AMA in 2021 dissolved

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A total of 79 customary marriages were dissolved at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in 2021. The Assembly, in 2021, registered a total of 345 customary marriages, 79 of which were dissolved, indicating that, one out of four of the marriages registered collapsed. They were engagements and Islamic marriages. Common causes of the collapse of […]

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