Yoighaman:


But the man settled her by buying another property for her (in Mile 2, Lagos) nau, didn't you read that part?

How true is that? Note that the veracity of that statement was not established by the court.
Also, note that they are equal partners. Did they sit down together and agree to sell the property in dispute?

RighteousI:


Another characteristic of alpha males is that they actually resort to violence to prove that they are alpha males.

So what will happen if the alpha males decide to use violence and reject the courts decision? If the wife tries to use the courts or police to enforce the law then the alpha males may decide to send boys to rape, beat and amputate the legs of the wife.

This is not Europe where you have bastardized, useless, and effeminate males that will sign half of their cheque to the wife.

In Africa, you get killed for claiming what's not yours.

That's why I called them alfa malus 😅

Blackdisciple:
Justice Dorcas T. Olatokun

Na female judge ai,
So what happens o the wife's properties, I'm just asking

The same! So long as it is property acquired during the marriage, na the same.

When I saw the headline, I immediately concluded that this judgement must surely come from a female Judge, not that I have anything against the judgement though.

I hope if the reverse should be the case, this judgement should also apply.

I have seen women who possess valuable properties and then her family comes to take over her properties after her unfortunate demise.

I believe the defendant can appeal this judgement and win. He would only have to compensate the wife. How can a judge be making reference to a law in England to give judgement in a Nigerian court, I don't understand this perhaps lawyers in the house can make clarifications as regards this.

"Constructive Trust" is there something like that in property law in Nigeria??

Onyinyechiugly1:


Don't mind them.

Let them keep weeping.

You want to keep a woman, yet you don't want her to be part of your properties or earnings?
Some of your wives don't work, they stay back and do the job of an unpaid maid.....working tirelessly just to make sure your lives are simple.
Don't you know how much you would pay, if those jobs are outsourced?

Then in the future, when you are not satisfied with her anymore, u chase her to leave with nothing, except her name.

Always wanting women to be at their mercy!
Tueh!


Una dey try well well!

Unpaid maid?? So the food she dey chop for free does not have monetary value....dey live rent free....bills free...have her kids cared not by her money... if there is car and other comforts..she will get it all for free.

yet somehow its all unpaid to you... ...

I'm never surprised at a woman comment on matters like this anyway.... una entitlement mentality is always on a principality level....

Dont agree to stay at home naaa...nobody force una......but u women will agree cos free pvssy from nature easy to contribute....yet u will come and claim victim...

I submit that this judgement will not likely stand the test of time, chances are that it will be overruled on appeal. Lots of loopholes are apparently manifesting here. Unresolved issues as to the marital status of the man, the state of contract between employer and employee, equitable right of redemption, especially between spouses, the position of joint ownership between partners, duty of disclosure among couples etc. Well, at best, this appears to me as a kind of judicial rascality coming from a Lagos High Court bench. How it will sail through on appeal is like a mirage to me. My opinion please.

Sablexxxtoons:
Don't sensationalise the judgement.. the woman contributed severally towards that property hence the judgement

"This inference of trust, the one for the other is readily apparent when each has made a financial contribution to the purchase price or the mortgage installment."

I bet you didn't read the whole story, so you didn't see the part that mentioned the property was bought even before she was married. How then did she contribute?

FreeStuffsNG:
This is a revolutionary judgement . It no longer matters any more whose name is on the original property titles. The properties of the man is jointly owned by him and his wife even if it's paid for by the man.

The man will probably apeal and get it overturned.

jahsharon:


The female judge is MAD. This case will get to the Supreme Court. So all a woman need to do in her life is to fucck a man, then she automatically owns half of his life’s hard work.

E no go better for her Mama. Na motor go jam her

I support the judgement and I am sure the supreme court will uphold the judgement. A woman cannot be married to a man for 35 years and all her contributions to the success of the family will be termed null and void. She must have contributed financially, morally, spiritually and otherwise to the family. If the man had hired a cook, a house cleaner, a nanny and oloshos for 35 years, I am sure it would be more than the cost of the house.

wirinet:
I support the judgement and I am sure the supreme court will uphold the judgement. A woman cannot be married to a man for 35 years and all her contributions to the success of the family will be termed null and void. She must have contributed financially, morally, spiritually and otherwise to the family. If the man had hired a cook, a house cleaner, a nanny and oloshos for 35 years, I am sure it would be more than the cost of the house.

Him no go get mouth to talk at all!

Kobojunkie:
Don't bother marrying at all since everything you make during the marriage is considered part and parcel of the Marriage — a business Partnership.

i will marry, she can go and work, let me do nothing then and inherit her sweat!

seunayantokun:
Turn it the other way around, would wives be glad to share theirs with their husbands in the same terms and spirit?

Nevertheless, I support the judgement

Some wives will accept it if vice versa.

I guess that's what some of my Igbo brothers have seen ahead, that makes them to take interest in building their buiz, house and car before marriage... Consequently, that makes some of their wives to be humble in marriage, hence they work to be financially responsible and endeavor to train their children as prize gift. They understand the consequence, if they didn't.

Well, the judgement can further reduce the interest of marriage in subsequent time.

We learn everyday.

Princedapace:
■ i will marry, she can go and work, let me do nothing then and inherit her sweat!

Na the eejit wey go marry your kain me go dey wonder about.

Kobojunkie:
Na the eejit wey go marry your kain me go dey wonder about.

Oh, so it is wrong for me to do nothing and probably stay at home and raise kids or run one business that I keep failing in while my wife works her ass out, then, I divorce her after 10 years and claim partnership of her sweat, right?

Emanodimo:
■ Some wives will accept it if vice versa. I guess that's what some of my Igbo brothers have seen ahead, that makes them to take interest in building their buiz, house and car before marriage... Consequently, that makes some of their wives to be humble in marriage, hence they work to be financially responsible and endeavor to train their children as prize gift. They understand the consequence, if they didn't. Well, the judgement can further reduce the interest of marriage in subsequent time. We learn everyday.

So, throughout the marriage, your ibo brothers acquire no properties or businesses? And you swallow that ridiculous nonsense for an excuse?

Kobojunkie:
I hope the first wife reads this and weeps over her foolish decision not to wed in the courts, so she can at least warn her daughters never to make the same mistake she did.

I think the court also accepts customary marriage as legit. I read so some time ago.

Princedapace:
■ Oh, so it is wrong for me to do nothing and probably stay at home and raise kids or run one business that I keep failing in while my wife works her ass out, then, I divorce her after 10 years and claim partnership of her sweat, right?

If a wife does nothing— brings no value to your life and existence— why marry in the first place? Go marry your fellow men abeg!

Princedapace:

i will marry, she can go and work, let me do nothing then and inherit her sweat!

If she is the one working, then you can make your own contributions by cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, helping with their homework and serving her well in the other room. Then you will be entitled to "inherit her sweat" when you decide to go your separate ways.

Kobojunkie:
If a wife does nothing— brings no value to your life and existence— why marry in the first place? Go marry your fellow men abeg!

But I will also add value to her life while she works na

laprince:
■ I think the court also accepts customary marriage as legit. I read so some time ago.

I read somewhere that Lagos honors customary marriages that took place within its state and not from outside. I may be wrong!

Kobojunkie:
So, throughout the marriage, your ibo brothers acquire no properties or businesses? And you swallow that ridiculous nonsense for an excuse?

The igbo culture is so misogynistic. The treat women like property bought and sold with no rights whatsoever.

Princedapace:
■ But I will also add value to her life while she works na

Meaning you don't plan to do anything then. So, what is there to debate?

The court cannot grant equal righ to the ownership of a property bought in the husband's name.
The op was mischievous and if the lower court did so only made life difficult for th woman.
But if there is is vidence of contribution to the existence of the actualisation of the said property either directly by contributory funds or as examples listed in this case >then the judge can intervene on behalf of the woman on the basis of fairness

wirinet:


If she is the one working, then you can make your own contributions by cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, helping with their homework and serving her well in the other room. Then you will be entitled to "inherit her sweat" when you decide to go your separate ways.

Surely, now u are talking!

We have to wait until when women would accept this.
For now, no one shares a dime from what they didnt contribute to.
We talk as if men dont also contrubute in raising kids
A lot of homes have house helps who do cleaning and cooking!
The woman must contribute money to any property she claims for

Emanodimo:


Some wives will accept it if vice versa.

I guess that's what some of my Igbo brothers have seen ahead, that makes them to take interest in building their buiz, house and car before marriage... Consequently, that makes some of their wives to be humble in marriage, hence they work to be financially responsible and endeavor to train their children as prize gift. They understand the consequence, if they didn't.

Well, the judgement can further reduce the interest of marriage in subsequent time.

We learn everyday.

Yeah, you're right there.
All I pray for is that we all become unselfish. If we all are well-behaved, marriage will not become an anathema.

baralatie:
The court cannot grant equal righ to the ownership of a property bought in the husband's name.
The op was mischievous and if the lower court did so only made life difficult for th woman.
But if there is is vidence of contribution to the existence of the actualisation of the said property either directly by contributory funds or as examples listed in this case >then the judge can intervene on behalf of the woman on the basis of fairness

Read what the judge in fact said....

FreeStuffsNG:
It said men hold such properties in ‘constructive trust’ for the family.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has added a new vista to the rights of women in Nigeria as it declares that wives are joint owners of the properties with their husbands as men hold such properties in ‘constructive trust’ for the family.
The court ruled that “indirect contributions of a wife to the marital property should not be quantified in monetary terms in order to entitle her to a share of the property”.
“Constructive Trust,“ the court said, quoting the English Master of Rolls, Lord Denning, “is a trust imposed by law wherever justice and good conscience require a remedy by which the court can enable an aggrieved spouse or party to obtain restitution and the success of the party’s case does not depend on his or her direct physical or monetary contribution to the building or acquisition of the property.”

I know a lot of people won't read what's up there but just jump to comment, anyways, the husband is an irresponsible mad man. If I am the judge, he will even pay damages. Some men are disgrace to real men.

Princedapace:
■ Surely, now u are talking! We have to wait until when women would accept this.
For now, no one shares a dime from what they didnt contribute to. We talk as if men dont also contrubute in raising kids A lot of homes have house helps who do cleaning and cooking! The woman must contribute money to any property she claims for

Why do you first have to wait for that to happen when it is the Law?

Princedapace:

Surely, now u are talking!

We have to wait until when women would accept this.
For now, no one shares a dime from what they didnt contribute to.
We talk as if men dont also contrubute in raising kids
A lot of homes have house helps who do cleaning and cooking!
The woman must contribute money to any property she claims for

We don't have to wait for women to accept it, the English common law and the courts have already accepted it. If the man takes hus wife to court and can prove he has made significant contributions to the marriage, the court will rule they share the properties in accordance to their contributions.

Kobojunkie:
Why do you first have to wait for that to happen when it is the Law?

Becus women arent playing such!
How many of the ladies u know agress to marry a man who stays at home or does very little stuff financially?

wirinet:

We don't have to wait for women to accept it, the English common law and the courts have already accepted it. If the man takes hus wife to court and can prove he has made significant contributions to the marriage, the court will rule they share the properties in accordance to their contributions.

In this same country where ladies dont even want to marry a man who earns 30k as salary, where on earth will u find a Nigerian lady who wants to marry a man who does nothing or brings very unreliable source of income for marriage? Whereeeeeeeee?

It seems like this gold diggers want to carry that their madness from western world enter Nigeria. Well they should all prepare for the consequences