Post by Blessing Ojoma Onakpa (@blessing-82)
If you walk in and find your wife with another man on your matrimonial bed, here’s what the law actually says in most parts of Southern Nigeria:
Adultery is not a criminal offense.
You can’t attack the man — he’s not an intruder or a criminal. Your wife gave him access.
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Blessing Ojoma Onakpa: If your marriage is under the Act, you also can’t throw her out.
Your legal option is simple: file for divorce and use adultery as your grounds, and you may add the man to the suit to claim damages.
But in court, nothing is assumed.
Seeing two adults on a bed ≠ automatic proof of adultery. You must...
Your legal option is simple: file for divorce and use adultery as your grounds, and you may add the man to the suit to claim damages.
But in court, nothing is assumed.
Seeing two adults on a bed ≠ automatic proof of adultery. You must...