Ado-Ekiti Customary has dissolved a 9-year-old marriage having favoured the petition by Mrs. Adenike Oye who alleged that the husband Mr. Oye impregnated her cousin, Tosin.

Mrs. Adenike who explained that the cousin was helping them in domestic and other menial works at home also prayed the court to dissolve the marriage on ground of frequent fighting, lack of care for her and the children by her estranged husband.

She disclose while narrating her ordeal, that her husband is a driver and that he had never been responsible, adding that the respondent used to womanise and that he used to go out at his own will and come back late to house.

Delivering his judgment, the President of the court, Mr. Joseph Ogunsemi said, based on the testimony of the petitioner, it was clear to the court that she had been maltreated by the husband, with her kids. 

Consequently, the marriage was dissolved and the respondent ordered to be paying N5,000 on each child every month for the upkeep of the two children starting from October, 2013.

The petitioner said her husband could have access to his children whenever he wishes to visit them but must notify them of his coming.

The respondent on the other part was said to have absented himself from the court in previous invitations and therefore was deemed to have admitted all the allegations leveled against him in the open court.