MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND FAMILY RELATIONS

CHAPTER 25:01
MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND FAMILY RELATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Application

PART II
GENERAL

    4.    Registrar of Marriages

    5.    Publication of list of registrars

    6.    Registrars to be provided with books of marriage certificates

    7.    Registration of marriages

    8.    Marriage Register Book

    9.    Correction of clerical errors in marriage certificates

    10.    Evidence of marriage

    11.    Minister to license places of worship to celebrate marriages

    12.    Marriages recognized under the Act

    13.    Marriage by repute or permanent cohabitation

PART III
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MARRIAGE

    14.    Capacity to enter into a valid marriage

    15.    Marriages within prohibited degrees of kindred and affinity

    16.    Explanations to be given by a registrar

PART IV
PRELIMINARIES TO A CIVIL MARRIAGE

    17.    Declaration of marital status prior to marriage

    18.    Prohibition of polygamy in a civil marriage

    19.    Notice in a civil marriage

    20.    Signature of notice by person unable to write or understand the English language

    21.    Registrars to supply forms of notice

    22.    Notice to be entered in Marriage Notice Book and published

    23.    Publication of a marriage notice

    24.    Issue of a registrar’s permit in a civil marriage

    25.    Power of Minister to grant special licence to marry

PART V
PRELIMINARIES TO RELIGIOUS AND CUSTOMARY MARRIAGES

    26.    Marriages under this Part to accord with customs and rites of religious body, sect, denomination or ethnic groups

    27.    Notice of intention to marry

    28.    Issue of a registrar’s permit in a customary or religious marriage

PART VI
OBJECTIONS TO ALL MARRIAGES RECOGNIZED UNDER THE ACT

    29.    Marriage to take place within three months after date of notice

    30.    Caveat

    31.    Caveat to be referred to court

    32.    Compensation and costs for wrongful caveat

PART VII
CELEBRATION OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

    33.    Marriage in a registrar’s office

    34.    Oath to be administered in civil marriages

    35.    Marriage certificate to be signed

    36.    Marriage under special licence

PART VIII
CELEBRATION OF CUSTOMARY AND RELIGIOUS MARRIAGES

    37.    Application of Part V to marriages under this Part

    38.    Traditional Authority to register customary marriages

    39.    Marriage in a licensed place of worship

    40.    Oath to be administered in customary and religious marriages

    41.    Registrar not to celebrate marriage where there is impediment nor without permit

    42.    Customary or religious marriages under special licence

    43.    Register of customary or religious marriages

    44.    Entries to be made in marriage certificate

    45.    Signature to marriage certificate

    46.    Duplicate certificate to be sent to registrar

    47.    Marriage certificate to be registered

PART IX
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARTIES TO A MARRIAGE

    48.    Right to consortium

    49.    Right to mutual marital confidences

    50.    Duty to maintain family

PART X
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES RELATING TO MARRIAGE

    51.    Polygamy and bigamy in a civil marriage

    52.    Marriage ceremony with a married person

    53.    Making false declarations in relation to marriage

    54.    Registrar unlawfully performing ceremony

    55.    Unlawful performance of ceremony by person not legally competent

    56.    Willful neglect of duty to fill up or transmit certificate of marriage

    57.    Personation in marriage

    58.    Fictitious marriage

PART XI
DIVORCE, JUDICIAL SEPARATION AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE

    59.    General principles

    60.    Limitations of this Act

    61.    Divorce and judicial separation

    62.    Rape during judicial separation

    63.    Irretrievable breakdown of marriage

    64.    Evidence of breakdown of marriage

    65.    Circumstances in which decrees may be made

    66.    Arrangements for the future in case of divorce or judicial separation

    67.    Rebuttable presumption of condonation of adultery

    68.    Co-respondent

    69.    Duty of the court on the presentation of a petition for divorce

    70.    Proceedings for decree of presumption of death and dissolution of marriage

    71.    Distribution of property during judicial separation

    72.    Petition to reverse decree of judicial separation

    73.    Divorce proceedings after grant of judicial separation

    74.    Distribution of property upon dissolution of marriage

    75.    Effect of reversal or discharge of judicial separation or protection order

    76.    Costs against a co-respondent

    77.    Grounds for decree of nullity

PART XII
GENERAL PROCEDURE ON DIVORCE, JUDICIAL SEPARATION AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE

    78.    Petitions

    79.    Service of petition

    80.    Examination of witnesses

    81.    Husband and wife compellable witnesses

    82.    Sittings in camera

    83.    Adjournment

    84.    Making decree nisi absolute

    85.    Enforcement of orders for payment of money

    86.    Re-marriage of the parties

    87.    Rules of court

PART XIII
MAINTENANCE…