Domestic Relations – Annulment – Nigerian Marriage Law 
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Published: October 19, 2009
Although wife contends her marriage in Nigeria ended when the “elders of her place” granted a “customary divorce” from her “customary marriage” to her first husband who deserted her, she did not preserve her claims of error in the trial court decision to annul her marriage to appellee husband, and the Court of Appeals affirms ...
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