By Love Wilhelmina Abanonave
Legal Practitioner and Family law expert, Maurice Ampaw has revealed that he had once charged an outrageous fee which was not what he usually charged a couple just to save the marriage.
According to him, the woman gave the most unusual reason he had ever heard for a divorce case and it was that she was no longer in love with her husband. He recounted when the couple came to him with the woman asking for a divorce and stating her reason.
Ampaw then charged them outrageous fees which he normally wouldn’t charge in hopes that she might change her mind but she fully paid the fees without asking for a reduction.
He even intentionally increased the time duration telling them it would take more than six months but the woman still insisted on seeing it through.
Days later, the man came to his office telling him he still loved his wife and that it wasn’t the first time she had initiated a divorce so he begged Ampaw to hold on with the proceedings.
However, he relayed the information to the woman who then told him not to allow her husband to deceive him and that if Ampaw stopped the process, she would see him as being unprofessional.
Speaking on the GTV Breakfast show, the family law expert recounted that he went ahead and filed the case before the court. The woman was then asked what her reason was and she mentioned that she was no longer in love with her husband however the Judge told her that was not enough reason to file for a divorce and her reason was not part of the eight reasons for which one could file for divorce including the grounds of infidelity, unreasonable behavior, desertion and others.
Ampaw revealed the woman then accused him of trying to stop the divorce process.
After it was adjourned for some days, the Judge asked the woman again to give him one valid reason for which he would grant her the divorce she so much desired.
It was then she said, ‘’I don’t enjoy sex with my husband and for almost five years now I haven’t felt anything when he touches me’’
The Judge granted the divorce based on the grounds of sexual dissatisfaction.
Ampaw went on to reveal that It was days later when he found out that the woman’s ex had just returned from Canada and was the one financing the whole divorce proceedings.
