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Spousal Maintenance and Alimony under the Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA)

The concept of marriage and divorce affects Nigerian women more than it affects men due to the deep-rooted culture that all women should be married leaving women with little or no choice as to what direction or dimension their lives should take.Hence, more women are trapped in a hellish or short life as a result of ABSTRACT In African society, marriage is regarded as the union between two families even though the parties concerned in the marriage are the husband and the wife who are matured to enter into a legal relationship.But under the common law principles of Hyde V Hyde, it is a union bet…