November 2015

A critique of certain aspects of the grounds, procedure and reliefs attaching to customary divorce law in Southern Nigeria

Divorce does great violence to marriage, and by extension to family and society. Although the provisions for divorce under the Nigerian Matrimonial Causes Act frustrates the ideal of a lifelong union made normative by the natural law, the provisions and practices of divorce under the various customary laws are arguably much more devastating to the quintessential stability of marriage. It is either that the grounds...

Author(s): Maurice Okechukwu Izunwa