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, 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.
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.
Source: adomnews
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And who says the registered married men don't chase or marry more women ? The issue is both the man and the woman must discipline themselves.
registering a ccustomary marriage does not necessarily make it monogamous. go back to law school
this is misleading. a customary marriage remains so. it does not cecessarily change into an ordinance marriage. the lawyer is misleading readers
this lawyer must have ch0pped last in law school because it is never true that customary marriage is not valid. it is recognized by the law just that the man can marry as many 'as his cutlass can take care of.' Unless it is peace fm giving us nkura aduro but if this lawyer said this dia then sorry for his clients!
Where from this lawyer? Who said customary marriage is not legal? It is, just that it is potentially polygamous. If the woman who called in was first married to the man customarily, the second marriage under ordinance is not valid. Once a man marries under customary law first, all subsequent marriages can also only be customary marriage not ordinance.