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Section 107 of the Law of Marriage Act, Cap 29 (RE: 2002) Evidence that marriage has broken down
(1) In deciding whether or not a marriage has broken down, the court shall have regard to all relevant evidence regarding the conduct and circumstances of the parties and, in particular–
(a) shall, unless the court for any special reason otherwise directs, refuse to grant a decree where a petition is founded exclusively on the petitioner's own wrongdoing; and
(b) shall have regard to the custom of the community to which the parties belong.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the court may accept any one or more of the following matters as evidence that a marriage has broken down but proof of any such matter shall not entitle a party as of right to a decree–
(a) adultery committed by the respondent, particularly when more than one act of adultery has been committed or when adulterous association is continued despite protest;
(b) sexual perversion on the part of the respondent;
(c) cruelty, whether mental or physical, inflicted by the respondent on the petitioner or on the children, if any, of the marriage;
(d) wilful neglect on the part of the respondent;
(e) desertion of the petitioner by the respondent for at least three years, where the court is satisfied that it is wilful;
(f) voluntary separation or separation by decree of the court, where it has continued for at least three years;
(g) imprisonment of the respondent for life or for a term of not less than five years, regard being had both to the length of the sentence and to the nature of the offence for which it was imposed;
(h) mental illness of the respondent, where at least two doctors, one of whom is qualified or experienced in psychiatry, have certified that they entertain no hope of cure or recovery;
(i) change of religion by the respondent, where both parties followed the same faith at the time of the marriage and where according to the laws of that faith a change of religion dissolves or is a ground for the dissolution of marriage.
(3) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that–
(a) the parties were married in Islamic form;
(b) a Board has certified that it has failed to reconcile the parties; and
(c) subsequent to the granting by the Board of a certificate that it has failed to reconcile the parties, either of them has done any act or thing which would, but for the provisions of this Act, have dissolved the marriage in accordance with the Islamic law,
the court shall make a finding that the marriage has irreparably broken down and proceed to grant a decree of divorce.
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