You cannot stop your ex-wife from using your name after divorce

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  • Princewilly@ymail.com 1 year ago

    Who keeps the children?
    A man and his young wife were in divorce court, but the custody of their children posed a problem.

    The mother gets up and says to the judge that since she brought the children into this world, she ...
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  • Apostle 1 year ago

    Judge replied : the Coke belongs to you.

  • Borketey 1 year ago

    If my wife divorced me, are you saying she would go on using this typical traditional name for herself?
    Not all names are borrowable. Ga names are already arranged according to tradition and no one from any different family ...
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  • Mahama as president and Bawumia as vice 1 year ago

    My friend just shut up ,and listen to wisdom ,and stop this ha nonsense

  • Aqquabbaa 1 year ago

    No wonder our traditional marriages are still referred to as engagement. When a lawyer would rather give an example of a foreign culture tells me that our culture and cases in Ghana are not valued by the legal system. For yo ...
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  • Bad lawyer views 1 year ago

    So your former wife can go around using the same name as you current wife. She can even claimto br your wife still. She got the name through marriage which is no more so why use the name.

  • Yaw 1 year ago

    She ‘chose’ to bear that name. It is up to her to stop or continue using it. She could have even sworn an affidavit to start using your name when you were dating. It’s by choice.

  • Grow in Wisdom 1 year ago

    This is nkwaseasem! Sɛ wo kyi kooko a, wo n’di ne ba. That is to say, if you hate the taro plant, you don’t eat its roots. Why approbate and reprobate at the same time, when you same lawyers say it is not allowed? You d ...
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  • kingsley 1 year ago

    The problem we have as a nation is the corrupt and incompetent judges. What has England law got to do with Ghana law. These internet judges, postponing cases for years because they need time to referenced to the internet for ...
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  • Ghana Citizen 1 year ago

    This is a stupid law. Before she got married to the man, the question is, was she using the man’s name?

  • TAN 1 year ago

    This is not a new thing at all. Pls go to YouTube to listen and learn. Also go on google or Wikipedia. Let’s learn and educate ourselves. Learn from this juddge abi.

  • HENRY, SPAIN 1 year ago

    IN ENGLAND, BUT NOT IN GHANA. YOU CANNOT USE ENGLAND CONSTITUTIONAL ACCEPT TO GHANA. WHEN YOU ARE DIVORCED, THE WOMAN IS FREE TO USE HER PRECIOUS NAME, FOR HER TO MARRY AGAIN. LIKEWISE THE MAN TO REMARRY. WHY SHOULD SHE USE Y ...
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