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I'm in Sh980,000 debt and married to a liar

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Married to a liar Dear Harold,

My wife never told me she was pregnant with another man’s baby when I walked her down the aisle 18 months ago. I got suspicious following mysterious phone calls that blew her cover. I overheard her say on phone that she married me because of my money, but she loves the biological father of her daughter. I feel used and wasted financially as I took a Sh980,000 loan to finance our wedding and honeymoon in Mombasa. This is treachery that I cannot live with and I am contemplating ending the marriage, which started on a wrong footing. Do I have valid legal grounds to cancel the marriage?

Fred, Nairobi.

Dear Fred, 

A marriage can be nullified in court if the bride was impregnated by another person other than the groom.

You may have a valid ground before court, but you must also be ready to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you were not aware of her pregnancy at the time of exchanging vows.

There are decided cases, in the United Kingdom, on the same that serve as judicial precedents in Kenya.

For instance, in the case of Poulet Perrage, the wife was three months pregnant at the time of marriage.

 It was only two months into the marriage that the husband realized that he married her while expectant. Further evidence in court shows she delivered six months after the wedding. The marriage was nullified after he proved there was no sexual encounter before they exchanged their vows and the baby was not his.

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