Lawyers decry high fee of divorce

Some Abuja-primarily based attorneys on Tuesday decried the excessive price of divorce, and blamed the development to unpreparedness before going into the holy matrimony.
Divorce Decree The legal professionals who spoke in separate interviews, stated many human beings marry without understanding the `dos and don’ts’ of the marriage institution.

A record of divorce obtained from an FCT high court confirmed that 24 divorce cases were filed from January to March in that courtroom on my own. Mr Abdulkarim Shaibu, a attorney stated that plenty of human beings that move into marriage now do not recognize what marriage was all approximately. “What you notice at times are marriages organized with the aid of mother and father for their kids, this is mainly a few of the elite, and they generally tend to dictate to them the way to live their lives. “The effects are what we see playing out now, where couples can not tolerate each other due to the fact there may be continually a third party in the marriage.’’ Shaibu stated that maximum couples have been now not prepared to face the realities, “from the start they already made up their minds on some thing, specially wealth, and if not there, the wedding will not stand.’’

He harassed the need for mother and father to educate their youngsters at the demanding situations in marriage to allow them take the proper decision. every other attorney, Christie Nwaka, stated no longer knowing what one desired could lead to interrupt down in marriage and subsequently to divorce. “people are continually deceived by means of bodily appearances or wealth, and there are generally extreme demanding situations when folks who come collectively because of mundane matters are faced with extreme issues. “another severe issue in marriage which human beings refuse to speak approximately is sexual intercourse, it can spoil a wedding when it is not nicely addressed and lack of conversation among couples too,’’

She said. Nwaka advised dad and mom to allow their kids to run their houses in their own way and stop interfering in any bad manner. “Marriage as an institution ought to be respected, and the only way to do that is to train and put together the ones going into marriage on what marriage is all approximately and a way to make success of it,’’ she stated.