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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 enabling divorce are so elastic and plural to encompass anything whatsoever; or that the procedure for initiating and securing divorce is overly discriminatory and human right insens…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution
Date	2015-11-30
Type	article
Details	openalex authorships.countries:NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320\|3321\|3308\|1202\|3303\|3312\|2002\|2000\|2003 + local /\bnige
Found at	https://doi.org/10.5897/jlcr2013.0162
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A critique of certain aspects of the grounds, procedure and reliefs attaching to customary divorce law in Southern Nigeria. OpenAlex research, 2015. Vero Archive, record openalex:W4247311153.