Court Dissolves Marriage Over Child’s Doubtful Paternity
Category: Relationship Matters
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State, on Tuesday, dissolved the
marriage between Jose Salami and Sola Jaiyeola on grounds of doubtful paternity
of their only child.
The petitioner, Mr Salami, who resides at No.
9, Bakare St., Igando, Lagos State, had told the court that he doubted the
paternity of the only child produced by the union.
“In March 2013,
she said she was a month pregnant for me; so, I arranged for a traditional
marriage to be done.
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“But to my surprise, my wife put to bed in July
of that same year, and when I asked how possible it was, she waived it aside.
“The paternity of the child became worrisome and I summoned her
parents to intervene and ask her how possible it is to give birth within five
months.
“Also, when the matter happened, she stopped cooking for me,
and I was eating out, thinking she would change, but nothing happened,” he told
the court.
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Mr Salami added that every form of sexual interaction
stopped between the two.
“Communication also seized, if she wanted
to tell me anything, she would write it on paper and put it on a table for me to
see.
“In year 2016, I came home and found out she had moved out with
our only daughter, and all efforts to make her come back proved abortive.
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“She switched off her phones and blocked all communications with
me,” he said.
The petitioner said that later, she told him to move
on with his life as she was no longer interested in the marriage.
He
urged the court to dissolve the marriage, saying that he was approaching 50
years of age and needed to move on.
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In his judgment, the President of
the court, Adeniyi Koledoye, said that it appeared the love between the couple
had since perished.
He noted that the respondent did not show up in
court in several summons.
“There is no doubt that the respondent was
in another relationship from which she was pregnant, and perhaps the pregnancy
was rejected and she decided to hang it on the petitioner.
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“However,
the petitioner ought to have opted out of the marriage immediately he discovered
that the paternity of the child was doubtful.
“It is clear the
petitioner was deceived into the marriage by the respondent,” he held.
Mr Koledoye, therefore, dissolved the marriage.
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He
ordered the respondent to pay N200,000 to the petitioner.
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