MR. INNOCENT UGWUMBA ELUWA V. MRS. FLORENCE OGADINMA ELUWA

MOHAMMED L. GARBA, JCA (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): The Appellant had presented a petition for the dissolution of his marriage with the Respondent at the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, sitting at Eket, or grounds of cruelty, intolerable behavior, scandal, incompatibility or irreconcilable differences leading to the irretrievable break down of the marriage. On her part, the Respondent answered the petition and cross petitioned against the Appellant who replied and also answered the cross petition. The petition and cross petition proceeded to trial during which each of the parties testified in support of his/her case, and final addresses were filed and adopted by learned counsel for the parties. On the 8/2/2012, the High court delivered its judgment, dismissing the Appellant's petition, allowed the cross petition by the Respondent and dissolved the marriage by a decree Nisi. Custody of the two (2) children was granted to the Respondent with unrestricted access to them by the Appel…