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malcom1X:
Let me explain this thing properly. The woman you marry might not take care of you in old age because she is also battling old age too.
The solution. Marry a young wife or your child will have to forfeit their dream in other to take care of you while other children support financially.

There's a reason why Abishag the shunamite was chosen to take care of king David when he was old and not his wife.
Because queens weren't brought up to take care of kings in their vulnerable moments.

Only a servant could do that.

Now the question is after doing all that, bathing him. Cleaning his body after pooing on himself, should she not be compensated for something like that (I'm not saying that's what she did) but I'll tell you it takes love to do something like that.
Something the wife can't do.
Have you ever carried an old man to the toilet before? No.
Only your child or someone that truly loves you can do that.

So you are saying the reward should come in the name of estate not thank you,God bless you

FreeStuffsNG:
An educated beauty queen who turned out to become Iyawo saara. Smh.

This is a big lesson to others. The authentic widow knew all along and was using Yoruba sense to wait.

She should appeal the Judgement. Even within Yoruba culture, she will be recognized because she had a child for him. In Yoruba culture, she is more than a concubine.

We are talking of common law,you are talking of Yoruba culture

billyG:
We are talking of common law,you are talking of Yoruba culture

Smh.
You don't know nada. It is your own kind of ignorance that got her got into this troubling disgrace and humiliation in the first place.

go100:
This was her main undoing


"..the court held that the alleged customary marriage would, in any event, have been invalid because evidence before the court showed that Prest was still legally married to her former husband at the time she claimed to have married Dr. Ajayi."

People don't know that in Nigeria legal marriage, it's only one husband, one woman, if you are not divorced, nothing wey the law fit give any cohabiting partner.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.
You don't know nada. It is your own kind of ignorance that got her got into this troubling disgrace and humiliation in the first place.

The law is superior to the culture, the law will only protect the child if he is less than 18, it has no business with the partner, the protection might ultimately give benefits to the partner through the child, but not to give to her directly.
I pity so many sidechicks wey dey think dey have arrived their green pasture.

Fujiyama:
^^^
Really? I had never heard of this.

The first son passed away some years ago.

Yeah. He died of COVID or so.

To be honest, I can't say I believe it, but it was being carried around.

You know in matters of inheritance, people will say anything to get any kind of perceived advantage.

I think where Helen prest missed it was getting the man to include the children from her previous marriage as his and also allocating property to them as his children in his will. This is what the first wife challenged and said since they were not legally married, Helen prest children from her first marriage had no rights as n the will and it was made under duress to include them.

The courts have ruled that there may be illegitimate marriages but there are no illegitimate children, so if your husband has a child outside your marriage, as long as there is evidence to prove that the child is his, if the man dies and the “outside child” is not included in his will, that “ outside child “ can go to court to render the will invalid . So men take note and wives also take note.

Helen should fight for her child she had with the man to be included in the will, that’s the only thing she is entitled to.

Someone said the first wife knew all these and had a game plan in mind , and that is why she refused to divorce the man. A woman that wants to take revenge on another woman can wait a 100 years and the feeling will not reduce by 1%. A man might ignore after some years, but you see women, na lie ooooooo

The reporting or judge is horrendous.

A man's will once of sound mind cannot be set aside.
The issue could be the properties in Ajayi's will may not be his to give away.
They could be common property of him and his (never divorced) wife.
The judge might finesse property he acquired after declared open notorious seperation

tnerro1:
I think where Helen prest missed it was getting the man to include the children from her previous marriage as his and also allocating property to them as his children in his will. This is what the first wife challenged and said since they were not legally married, Helen prest children from her first marriage had no rights as n the will and it was made under duress to include them.

The courts have ruled that there may be illegitimate marriages but there are no illegitimate children, so if your husband has a child outside your marriage, as long as there is evidence to prove that the child is his, if the man dies and the “outside child” is not included in his will, that “ outside child “ can go to court to render the will invalid . So men take note and wives also take note.

Helen should fight for her child she had with the man to be included in the will, that’s the only thing she is entitled to.

Can a man exclude a child/children/wife from his will?

tit:
Can a man exclude a child/children/wife from his will?

If you had not disowned them with “ reasonable cause “ or divorced them properly in the eyes of the law, they will go to court and the court go give them something from your property.

For example, if your son na the biggest armed robber in town , you can disown him on that basis and the court go back you up( evidence must dey oo) and the guy no go get shishi from your will.

dominique:
The man actually drew a will where Helen was allocated properties but the court threw it out after the estranged wife challenged it. She claimed Helen was a concubine who made him draft a will that would favour her and children she had for another man. Meanwhile she had been separated from the man years before he and Helen married o. Helen stood by the man till his last days, took care of him as his health failed and the end of the day, she got paid by being referred to a home wrecker. The man did her dirty, she also did herself dirty

Lesson:
WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER... stay away.
Hell awaits all side chicks, home wreakers, etc.

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She did it for her children

OlujobaSamuel:
The law is superior to the culture, the law will only protect the child if he is less than 18, it has no business with the partner, the protection might ultimately give benefits to the partner through the child, but not to give to her directly.
I pity so many sidechicks wey dey think dey have arrived their green pasture.

In things like this, culture will prevail las las. She is in this trouble because she thinks the law prevails over culture. Why do you think the court specificially raised the Kalabari marital angle and stated the she brought it up only as an afterthought. That shows you how naive and ignorant to think culture counts for nothing.

She may get some reprieve on appeal and only culture will give her some window.

There are people in her situation yet fully protected by the culture. I have an idea of the fatal flaw she made but won't tell you

sharone21:
Erelu ( older) was her best friend/ socialite friend then for Nike, so no shaking as Dr was in their handbags....Lol..... When she wised up and respected herself, she went to quickly use her frozen eggs to get herself surrogate kids and live peacefully with them.

You sabi Nike well well.
Even Dr Talk say she will come back and beg on her knees, when I read that interview, I showed my friend and I burst laugh. The beauty queen never crawl on her knees to go beg am since o! Hahahaha


Some married men will just ruin their marriages and be looking for single ladies or beauty queens wey their heads no correct to sink into their martial potopoto

RecentHistory:
If not married men, who will marry these beauty queens?
Look at Nike Oshinowo, after she left Duro, did you hear about her again?
Without married men, these beauty queens will starve.

Go and check. Most women whose claim to fame is their beauty always end up with married men. Unfortunately in those relationships, the married men hold the aces economically and the women can't leave because of greed.

Hahahaha
My people wey sabi this story full here o!
I purposely skipped Dr name o!

Good one!
Their greed no dey let them be.

Sebi one beauty queen into turban today sef dey do her own, another beauty queen from. Rivers marry one billionaire born baby girl same story blah blah blah


Their wahala too much.


Young ladies should wise up and avoid these married men biko and save themselves these wahala

dominique:
The man actually drew a will where Helen was allocated properties but the court threw it out after the estranged wife challenged it. She claimed Helen was a concubine who made him draft a will that would favour her and children she had for another man. Meanwhile she had been separated from the man years before he and Helen married o. Helen stood by the man till his last days, took care of him as his health failed and the end of the day, she got paid by being referred to a home wrecker. The man did her dirty, she also did herself dirty

The man did not do anyone dirty. Women should stop fighting over a dead man’s property.
She did not even ask the man to will property to her children or I don’t get? Children of concubine are not entitled to their fathers property?

dominique:
The man actually drew a will where Helen was allocated properties but the court threw it out after the estranged wife challenged it. She claimed Helen was a concubine who made him draft a will that would favour her and children she had for another man. Meanwhile she had been separated from the man years before he and Helen married o. Helen stood by the man till his last days, took care of him as his health failed and the end of the day, she got paid by being referred to a home wrecker. The man did her dirty, she also did herself dirty

The first wife is smart. Allow another over Sabi woman to take care of them in their old age then after his death throw her out.

FreeStuffsNG:
In things like this, culture will prevail las las. She is in this trouble because she thinks the law prevails over culture. Why do you think the court specificially raised the Kalabari marital angle and stated the she brought it up only as an afterthought. That shows you how naive and ignorant to think culture counts for nothing.

She may get some reprieve on appeal and only culture will give her some window.

There are people in her situation yet fully protected by the culture. I have an idea of the fatal flaw she made but won't tell you

Do you see the addendum of the justice on that, he said even if the customary angle was true, it can't still have a stand as there is an existing valid legal marriage.
Customary argument can only be valid if it was done before a legal marriage, that's when the court can consider if the legal marriage was done under deceit

dominique:
The case has been ongoing for over 5 years since the doctor passed away in 2020. Helen you did yourself dirty, as a lawyer you should know better. The court will always recognise the legally married wife no matter how long they've been separated.

Helen Prest grossly mismanaged her life by living-in with a man to whom she was not married for a record twenty-five years!!! Quite shameful and reprehensible that she turned out a gold-digger when she had no reason to be one having been born into an illustrious family. More worrisome is that the churches the parties apparently were associated with watched Helen Prest and Dr. Tosin Ajayi live in adultery for 25 years!!! On second thoughts the churches may not have known that they were living-in!

dominique:
The man actually drew a will where Helen was allocated properties but the court threw it out after the estranged wife challenged it. She claimed Helen was a concubine who made him draft a will that would favour her and children she had for another man. Meanwhile she had been separated from the man years before he and Helen married o. Helen stood by the man till his last days, took care of him as his health failed and the end of the day, she got paid by being referred to a home wrecker. The man did her dirty, she also did herself dirty

Helen Prest grossly mismanaged her life and was indeed a home wrecker. She earned her wages while the man lived. Sin sinks! Righteousness exalts!

Omeny:
All this judgement na from man wey full of faults.

Final judgment belong to God.

Serious one for parties who lived unrepentantly in adultery for 25 years!

Righteousness2:
Wonderful.
Great ruling from the Judge.

Home Wreckers, Home robbers, Husband Snatchers , Home Criminals , Side chics Aka the man is not Happy I de help am, should take note and learn.

Helen Prest’s 25 years life of adultery caught up with her eventually .

malcom1X:
Ladies Always make sure that married man that you are loving has divorced his wife if not you will cry tears with nothing to show for it.

I saw a story like this where the lady was taking care of this old man and the real wife never visited for one day. The day the man died the real wife visited, caused trouble and the lady left the house. After burial the wife traveled back abroad the next day.

Who employed her🙄

stagger:
The one of Chief Fred Rotimi Williams is the most surprising. Children from the same womb fighting themselves over their father's inheritance.

Isale oro l’egbin! Ajatuka Ni t’agbaarin! Ask Google for translation! When wealth is tainted by curse folks will fight themselves to tatters until it is dissipated in the war!

delpee:
The man should have bought a property for Helen in her name since he was still legally married to his wife. A will can always be contested.

Who says the man didn’t! I doubt that Helen Prest was as unprofessional as to neglect getting him to buy her juicy real properties! She knows the game well I suppose.

Harddiskng:
In other words, Mrs Ajayi that seperated from Mr Ajayi before his death; went to court to argue the “deceased is my husband” just to claim his estate in death.

Where was the love to get him back to be your husband before his death, i guess we will never find out.

This life ehn



He should have gotten a divorce from Mrs Ajayi then

May people that were never there for us, never taste out of the fruits of our labour when we die 🤲🏽

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Helen Prest had a valid claim but failed cuz she could have gotten better lawyers, Mrs Ajayi case was handled by a SAN, Helen Prest should have done same with the magnitude of what was at stake, hiring from the top law firms in Nigeria (Aluko & Oyebode, Banwo & Ighodalo, Olaniwun Ajayi, Templars etc) would have been money well spent for Helen Prest.

Helen Prest had better appeal and bring an atomic bomb to the battle (eg evidence of Mrs Ajayi infidelity, proof the deceased no longer wanted anything to do with her etc ).

Anyways 3 gbosa to Mr Kunle Adegoke SAN for winning this round. I like good lawyers. Mrs Ajayi was wise enough to hire a SAN, the cunny woman brought a Bazooka to a gun fight

1. Mr. Adegoke was not Silk five years ago when the Suit commenced.
2. Not even a Perry Mason, Wole Olanipekun, Johnny Cochran, Solomon Awomolo, Yusuf Ali, Kizor Akaraiwe et al could have won the case for Helen Prest in the absence of a valid bequest in her favour in a valid Will. The daughter Helen Prest had for the deceased misfiring gun certainly has something from the Estate!

BarrElChapo:
I was in the court when this matter came up in 2021 when they were still dragging who had right to the body of the doctor😁

Femi Falana represented Ms Helen who was also her classmate, and another Senior Advocate on the other side. It was a very contentious day in court. We were there till 4pm 😂 but that also was also a stroke of luck for me cos on leaving the court I met one of my most important client till date.

The Court literally prepared the burial rites ie the brochure, the location and what each side should contribute that day. It was a funny thing but I learnt something that day, don’t live your life in such a way that in your death, you’d cause chaos.

At the time the matter came up in court then, he had been in the mortuary for 9-11months, both sides were laying claim to his body.

Anyways Ms Helen has already appealed the judgement, so the drama continues.

Helen Prest is wasting her time and is sure to get some tongue lashing from the Court of Appeal. The facts and the Law on the matter are fairly straightforward!

FreeStuffsNG:
An educated beauty queen who turned out to become Iyawo saara. Smh.

This is a big lesson to others. The authentic widow knew all along and was using Yoruba sense of meekness to wait strategically.

She should appeal the Judgement. Even within Yoruba culture, she will be recognized because she had a child for him. In Yoruba culture, she is more than a concubine but less than the widow though.

In Yoruba culture it is the child that inherits the man

tnerro1:
If you had not disowned them with “ reasonable cause “ or divorced them properly in the eyes of the law, they will go to court and the court go give them something from your property.

For example, if your son na the biggest armed robber in town , you can disown him on that basis and the court go back you up( evidence must dey oo) and the guy no go get shishi from your will.

The trick is to give the accident of a child a nominal bequest and the deed is done!

billyG:
So you are saying the reward should come in the name of estate not thank you,God bless you

Guy you don mad 🤣🤣🤣