{"id":8382,"date":"2026-10-01T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:57:14","slug":"recent-decision-of-supreme-court-on-matrimonial-property-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/recent-decision-of-supreme-court-on-matrimonial-property-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent decision of Supreme Court on Matrimonial Property Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“…where a trial court determines to award a particular percentage in the distribution of marital property, it ought – respectfully – to articulate the basis for that determination by considering, inter alia, the following matters:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Duration of the marriage – The length of the marriage must be assessed in relation to the time at which the disputed property was acquired.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ownership of the land – How was the land on which the property stands acquired? Was it owned solely by one of the parties?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Chronology of construction – At what point relative to the marriage did construction of the property begin?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Source of acquisition – Was the property acquired from the pre-existing financial resources of one of the spouses or by a loan which is not paid off?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pre-marital assets – Did either spouse bring property or resources into the marriage that significantly contributed to the acquisition of the disputed property?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Financial standing and indebtedness – Did one spouse commence the marriage encumbered by debt and subsequently became solvent owing to the contributions or management of the other?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Financial contributions – What were the respective financial contributions of the parties during the marriage toward the acquisition or enhancement of the property in dispute?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mutual financial understanding – Did the parties have an explicit or implicit agreement to maintain financial equality during the marriage?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Non-monetary contributions – The intangible yet invaluable contributions of a spouse, such as domestic work, child-rearing, and emotional or moral support, must equally be accorded due recognition and weight”.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Justice Kweku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo in AMMA OWUSU SARPONG V. KOJO OWUSU SARPONG (2025).<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 “…where a trial court determines to award a particular percentage in the distribution of marital property, it ought – respectfully – to articulate the basis for that determination by considering, inter alia, the following matters:\u00a0Duration of the marriage – The length of the marriage must be assessed in relation to the time at which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegalacademy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}