MR ROBERT DANIEL AINOO V. MRS SABINA AINOO

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J.A.

1. This appeal is against the judgment of the High Court, Tarkwa, dated 30^th January, 2017. The appeal has arisen from a contest between the parties who were once husband and wife as to how to adjust their property rights in the assets acquired during the subsistence of the marriage. The petitioner/appellant is a teacher by profession who rose to become an Assistant Headmaster and finally Headmaster of Fiaseman Senior High School. The respondent/respondent on the other hand is a trader who progressed into an astute business woman operating several registered business enterprises.

2. The brief facts giving rise to the contest are that the petitioner/appellant, hereinafter called the appellant and the respondent/respondent hereinafter called the respondent married under the customary law at Nsuaem on 11^th November 1982. Subsequently, the customary marriage was converted to an Ordinance Marriage under CAP 127 on 6^th June 1982. At the time the petition was file…