COURT BARS WOMAN FROM USING EX-HUSBAND’S NAME AFTER 11 YEARS

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A Customary Court sitting in Rumuogba, Rivers State, on Friday stopped a woman, Mrs. Kate Ngbor, from continuing to bear her former husband’s name “with immediate effect” eleven years after the divorce.

The claimant, Chief Sam Ngbor, in Suit No: OCC/9/2021, sought the Court’s order to restrain his ex-wife, Mrs Kate Mgbor, from continuing to bear his name.

The Court, after hearing the submissions from E. O. Erhirhi, counsel of the claimant and R.U. Egwenre, counsel for the defendant granted the orders.

Delivering the judgment, the Chairman of the Customary Court, His H.A. Nnokam and member, L. G. Wokeh ordered that “the defendant has no right, except on the express permission of the claimant, to continue to bear or answer the name ‘Ngbor’ or ‘Sam-Ngbor’ (as the case may be).”

The Customary Court Chairman, said, “The court ordered the defendant to revert to her maiden name or any other name of her choice, excepting ‘Ngbor’ or ‘Sam-Ngbor’ as the case may be.”

“The court restrained the defendant from further bearing the name Mrs. Kate Ngbor or Mrs. Kate Sam-Ngbor (as the case may be) or further parading herself or holding herself out in this names howsoever”, the judgement further read.

With the judgement, the Court consequently stripped the defendant of the name ‘Ngbor’ or ‘Sam-Ngbor’.

Neither the claimant nor the defendant was in Court while the judgment was delivered, but the duo was represented by their legal counsels.