LATEST UPDATE: The Difference Between Customary Law Marriage And Statutory Marriage
Basically, it is good to be african in whatever you do, ranging from marriage, foods you eat, languages you speak etc. I was prompted to post this thread because of a thread I saw on the front page "is traditional marriage complete?" Yes, traditional marriage is complete if and only if you want to be polygamous or if you want your estate to shared according to your native laws and custom when you die intestate. However, if you want your marriage to be monogamous, and your property be shared according to English laws on your dead intestate, statutory marriage is the one to go by. Statutory marriage is basically a marriage under the Marriage Act. This could take place in the Registry(court marriage), or in any "licenced place of worship" by a registrar or by an ordained minister of a religion. When parties (marriage is a contract) contract a customary law marriage, and later a statutory marriage, the statutory marriage in effect suspends the customary law marriage pending the dissolution of the statutory marriage by any court of competent jurisdiction. There are many benefits of contracting a statutory marriage compared to customary law, for example, as earlier stated, when a man dies intestate under a customary law marriage, his native law and custom will govern the distribution of his estate. For instance, using igbo native law and custom, if a man who has no male child and dies intestate, his igbo custom will transfer his estates to his brother or any male in his paternal family, but if he contracted a statutory marrige, it is the English laws that will govern the distribution of his estates which is usually to his nuclear family only, not minding the absence of a male child.Note: I stand to be corrected, if anybody thinks I'm wrong. from http://ift.tt/19pR9bQ
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