DRAFT SAMPLE OF PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF LAGOS STATE

IN THE LAGOS JUDICIAL DIVISION

HOLDEN AT LAGOS

PETITION NO: LG/15/06/15

BETWEEN

MRS OLAJUMOKE BENDEL ……………………………………………………. PETITIONER AND

AKINOLA BENDEL…………………………………………………………………… RESPONDENT

PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION

TO: The above-named High Court

The Petitioner, Mrs Olajumoke Bendel whose address is at 137, Awofeso Drive, Shomolu, Lagos Mainland, and whose occupation is an Account Clerk with Telegram Department, Yaba Branch petitions the Court for a decree of dissolution of the marriage against the respondent Akinola Bendel whose address is at 127, Martins Street, Lagos and whose occupation is an Account Clerk with Kilpatrick Limited, Isolo, Lagos Mainland.

MARRIAGE

• The Petitioner then a spinster was lawfully married to the respondent then a bachelor at St. Paul's Church, Shornolu, Lagos Mainland on the 1st day of February, 1976.
• The surname of the Petitioner immediately before marriage was Miss Tunde.

BIRTH OF PETITIONER AND RESPONDENT

• The Petitioner was born in 1952 in Lagos and the Respondent was born in 1949 in Oyo State, Nigeria.

DOMICILE OR RESIDENCE

• The Petitioner is within the meaning of the Act, domiciled in Nigeria, the facts on which the court will be asked to find that the Petitioner is so domiciled are as follows: Previous to the marriage the Petitioner was residing with Petitioner's Parents at 137 Awofeso Drive, Shomolu, Lagos and has remained within the jurisdiction of Lagos since that date.

COHABITATION

Particulars of the places at which and periods which the petitioner and the respondent have cohabitated are as follows:

• Immediately after marriage at 73 Ogunbadejo Way, Shomolu and finally 45 Wereni Drive Palmgrove, Lagos Mainland.
• The date in which and circumstances in which cohabitation between the petitioner and the respondent first ceased are as follows: On 5th December, 1981, the Respondent threw the petitioner out of the matrimonial home at 75 Wereni Drive, Palmgrove and cohabitation between the parties ceased from that date.
• Particulars relating to the children to whom Order____ Rule___ applies are as follows:
• Yetunde, female, born on 17th April, 1976.
• Titilayo, female, born on 29th November, 1977.

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