Marital disputes should be solved by relatives, in mother tongue – Kikuyu Elder

When the harmer falls upon a marriage, it not only scars those involved but has a ripple effect on the couple’s children, close family friends and the community.  Divorce also takes its toll on the couple, with the spouses experiencing, the loss and grief of the relationship in different ways.

According to the Marriage Act 2014 section 65, the five grounds for the successful petition for the dissolution of marriage, is adultery, cruelty, exceptional depravity, desertion by the other spouse for at three years and irretrievable breakdown of marriage.