If you divorce your wife, you must forfeit your house to her, see the new court rules in Nigeria


A woman that has children for her husband and had married him before a house is built has the right to live in the house with her children even after divorce under the provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882, a court held on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The belief that patriarchy is so entrenched in the Nigerian system and women have no rights even under the law has been proved to be an erroneous one, majorly propounded by those ignorant of the rights provided under the law, the court said in a landmark judgement.

The provisions of the *Married Woman Property Act 1882* formed the basis of the pronouncement of the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Friday in a property suit between a divorced couple, Toyin Arajulu, formerly known as Mrs Toyin James and her former husband, Mr James Monday.

The court held that *“a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home.”*

Click the link below to read full story:

https://www.naijabroadcast.com.ng/2020/03/if-you-divorce-your-wife-you-must.html?m=1

Smiles.

The end is near for the Nigerian men.
Which means Gender equality

THIS IS NOT FAIR!! CAN THIS KIND LAW WORK IN AFRICA?

my yistan blodas will not like this.

JOKE OF THE DECADE.....here is not developed country where everyone is in data base....sell the house, then divorce....After divorce is settled, buy another house....HAHAHAHAHA...Nonsense law that won't work in Nigeria.

THUNDER4real:
JOKE OF THE DECADE.....here is not developed country where everyone is in data base....sell the house, then divorce....After divorce is settled, buy another house....HAHAHAHAHA...Nonsense law that won't work in Nigeria.

SENSE NO GO KILL YOU!!

This good, spread it across, we also need more of such laws In the whole of Africa. .

NAIJAHITPLAY:
The court held that *“a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home.”

Hope it can be enforced and not just one of those on paper laws.

my fellow men will start treading with caution

LilMissFavvy:
This good, spread it across, we also need more of such laws In the whole of Africa. .

You will know why nigeria has the largest number of scammers in africa
Just watch out...... LOL

Reading the comments and wondering why Nigerian women would want to be married to y’all

Get a prenup stipulating what everyone leaves with in the event of a divorce or build the house in your parents’ name(s). Case closed.

cococandy:
Reading the comments and wondering why Nigerian women would want to be married to y’all

The real question should be why Nigerian men still get married to Nigerian women.

GboyegaD:
Hope it can be enforced and not just one of those on paper laws.

The only unenforced laws are the ones people fail to take advantage of. Even with the provision of alimony in the constitution, only a minute percentage of Nigerian men women sue for alimony.

Belafonte:
Get a prenup stipulating what everyone leaves with in the event of a divorce or build the house in your parents’ name(s). Case closed.

If you set such conditions for marriage, you will dig a pit that will be too deep for you to fall into and come out of it without help

Unless you are not getting married to a woman

frozen70:


If you set such conditions for marriage, you will dig a pit that will be too deep for you to fall into and come out of it without help

Unless you are not getting married to a woman

Many men have already fallen into different flavors of pits as we speak and these conditions aren’t even in play. Devil go punish who he go punish

cococandy:
Reading the comments and wondering why Nigerian women would want to be married to y’all

We sef no marry una again baby mama ti take over. now back to the topic...
'only a foolish man will take a Nigerian woman to court to sign some useless slavery documents'.

Dumb law. What if the divorce is instigated by the woman, or if she is at fault? Nigerian women will certainly try to use this law as a career path; becoming serial divorcees like their counterparts in Western countries.

Funny enough, this will impact negatively on women more than it will on men in many ways. Men will be more wary about legally valid marriages; at least until they've already built a house; less ready to confide in their wives about any house they're building while married, more likely to keep their family in a rented apartment while they live apart, and some extra-strong minded men will even murder their wives rather than permit them to get ownership of their house with the divorce. There are diverse ways to get around this law, and none puts the woman in a better position.

Remains to be seen anyway.

bigiyaro:
my yistan blodas will not like this.

What a dumb comment you made!

That’s why your wives need to build their own houses in their own names without letting any of you know. 1 mean they can let you know if they want you. What will you do?

Because y’all obviously believe that after years of marriage, the family property belongs to you alone and she deserves to walk away with nothing.

NaijadrivaCars:

What a dumb comment you made!

of cos people like you won't like it.

cococandy:
Reading the comments and wondering why Nigerian women would want to be married to y’all

they exist only on Nairaland and on the internet.

I am happy that the males I interact with from my dad, brother, bestie, even my friends are not backward with this cave man mentality.

LilMissFavvy:
This good, spread it across, we also need more of such laws In the whole of Africa. .

Why

cococandy:
Reading the comments and wondering why Nigerian women would want to be married to y’all

If they think so...

They'll be surprised as men will turn them to baby mamas

Easier said than done

Awa males wee not like this ooo

What if they both contributed to the house ? Do women in Nigeria contribute financially at all?

lepasharon:
What if they both contributed to the house ? Do women in Nigeria contribute financially at all?

Some women are the bread winners.
Some have built houses too.
All these working class women, traders, I mean executives and big time biz women, what do they do with their money?
They do what the men do with it.

The diff is they hardly talk. Most times which is big mistake, they buy and build in the husbands name only.

Countable number of powerful women out there.

Never use nairaland to compare real life.

Never ever take it serious here

Never use nairaland to compare real life.

Let them do that.

By the time they find out one moniker might be typing as one hundred different ids just to help them destroy whatever they have, they would be looking for who to blame for their personal decisions.

NAIJAHITPLAY:
If you divorce your wife, you must forfeit your house to her, see the new court rules in Nigeria


A woman that has children for her husband and had married him before a house is built has the right to live in the house with her children even after divorce under the provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882, a court held on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The belief that patriarchy is so entrenched in the Nigerian system and women have no rights even under the law has been proved to be an erroneous one, majorly propounded by those ignorant of the rights provided under the law, the court said in a landmark judgement.

The provisions of the *Married Woman Property Act 1882* formed the basis of the pronouncement of the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Friday in a property suit between a divorced couple, Toyin Arajulu, formerly known as Mrs Toyin James and her former husband, Mr James Monday.

The court held that *“a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home.”*

Click the link below to read full story:

https://www.naijabroadcast.com.ng/2020/03/if-you-divorce-your-wife-you-must.html?m=1

Both you and the judge are deceiving yourselves.

Lol na small matter, I will first sell my house before announcing the divorce

I hope your sisters' and aunts husbands do same to them.

Eburu ozu onye ozo o Dika e bu nku.