The divorce battle that has gripped public attention is heading to the appellate courts as Joana Quaye, the former wife of Richard Nii Armah Quaye, has filed an appeal against a decision of the High Court that dissolved their marriage and distributed assets acquired during its subsistence.
Represented by former Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, the appellant is asking the Court of Appeal of Ghana to set aside the final orders delivered on January 20 by Justice Kofi Dorgu, Justice of the Court of Appeal, who sat as an Additional High Court Judge in the Family Court.
Ms Quaye’s lawyers set out five grounds of appeal, including the usual argument that “the orders of the High Court are against the weight of evidence.”
The appeal contends that the trial court misapplied Ghanaian law on marital property, asserting that almost all the immovable and movable properties claimed by the parties were acquired during the marriage and should therefore have been treated as marital property subject to equitable distribution.
The appellant takes particular issue with the exclusion of certain assets on the basis that her former husband did not intend them to be joint property, describing that conclusion as erroneous.
