Prenuptial And Postnuptial Marriage Contracts

 

Whites who brought ordinance marriage have some serious dynamics to it. The black man just accepts it without considering the dynamics and goes to sign marriage certificates in court just because they are happy to be married. Don't ever make a mistake of signing a marriage contract if no one has fully explained your rights, responsibilities, duties, benefits, liabilities, forfeiture etc in it for you to clearly understand.

In my own estimation and observation, 90% of Africans who sign marriage contracts don't even understand what they are signing. It is at the time of divorce that they realize they almost hanged their neck by signing the document. I mean how can you enter into a contract with someone when you don't understand what you are signing?

Those who must carry the greatest blame for this blander is the marriage counselors and the churches because to them the possibility of divorce is ruled out because of Christ Jesus according to their own doctrines.They forsake reality and go on preaching virtue and "what God has put together no man puts assunder". What if it is not God that put it together?

If you think what God has put together no one should put assunder then don't force your members to sign any document during weddings because it's entirely a God affair. The moment you bring signage in you have taken the God factor out and you are now in the flesh and being legal. And if you are being legal then we must also fleshly and  deliberately explore the legal facets on the institution called marriage and it's accompanying documents.

Most marriage counselors and pastors themselves don't understand what a marriage certificate is so in order to get their members married and maintain their membership, collections and tithes lure them into marriage by signing these death contracts so they can give testimony of Christ miracle of marriages in their churches. Churches must understand that a marriage can end in divorce and they need to have legal education about it or take their counselors for training on legal issues pertaining to marriages.

Under ordinance marriage you can enter into agreement that your spouse will not have any share in your property even if you divorce because you were having those property before marriage. This is called a prenuptial agreement and this what we fail to opt for because of the pastor's "anointing".

A marriage contract in itself is suppose to be prenuptial meaning any property each spouse possesses before the marriage becomes their sole property even after the marriage or divorce if can be proven in court. In this type of agreement, spouses must list all the properties they had before entering into marriage. This is to protect the wicked intent of those who enter into marriage with the aim of coming for your property.

If you know you are rich and you have properties I will advice you to go in for a prenuptial agreement if you want to do ordinance marriage. I think prenuptial agreement is very good for Africans because of the greed of families who advice spouses to come and milk and poison the other spouse. When you sign a prenup, when you even kill your spouse his/her property goes to their family or their choice not you.

A postnuptial agreement is an agreement that gives you the right in the share of the property of your spouse after marriage. The mistake we usually make is that because we don't clearly distinct between the property before and after marriage, you have spouses having full benefits of both in case of divorce and it at this point the prenuptial agreements are important in marriages.

Marriage counselors in churches need to add this to their syllabus and educate couples as to the type of agreement they want to sign under ordinance marriage otherwise as it stands if you go and append your signature under a marriage contract to an opportunist spouse, he or she must have a share in your property (properties before and after marriage) during divorce though they might be unfaithful or have committed nothing to the marriage itself.

What has inspired this write up is the case of Odartey Lamptey former Black Stars player who later discovered that all the three daughters under the ordinance marriage was not his. In the divorce settlement the wife still got 5 bedrooms house at Dome from him, a car and Ghs200,000. As if this was not enough she has filed three appeals to be given a 7 bedroom house under the marriage at East Legon because she said she wants to live in East Legon not Dome. I am so happy the courts have thrown out all her three appeals.

I think this case will go down as one reference case for the youth in Ghana. If you are a youth and you don't learn from the dynamics of this case then I don't know what else to tell you. There are alot of spouses who are wolves walking in sheep clothing and you get to discover their true nature after you sign ordinance marriage contracts with them. Since the head is not pawpaw for you to divide and see what is inside, enter marriage contracts to your benefit or don't go in for ordinance marriage at all.