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LAW 207 Family Law 1 Exam 2020

LAW 207: First Semester Examination, 20/02/2020, University of Buea, Faculty of Laws and Political Science: the right of Consortium (baseline treatment); Domicile of Dependants, including the historical rule of a wife's dependent domicile and its 1973 English-reform abolition, with Cameroon's reception-date flagged as genuinely uncertain; the statutory definition of adultery and, via Cleary v Cleary, the independence of the intolerability requirement; Sections 10, 11, 15 and 27 of the Southern Cameroon High Court Law 1955 (reception of English law, the Repugnancy Doctrine, and the duality rule); and a domicile-of-choice scenario turning on a foreseen future contingency (Re Fuld (No.3), IRC v Bullock).

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University of Buea

Faculty of Law and Political Science - FLPS

LAW2072020

Family Law 1

Exam · First Semester · Level 200

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Mr. Motale Raul and Mrs. Madeleine Christel have been in Holy Matrimony for 10 years now and are blessed with 14 kids. As fallout of their union, they enjoy some rights and privileges between each other. Discuss the Right of Consortium. (20Marks) b) Expatiate on the principle of Domicile of Dependants. (15 Marks)
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Define Adultery for the purpose of Section 1(2)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. (10 Marks) (b) In order to establish the irretrievable breakdown of marriage under section (2)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, has the petitioner to show that the intolerability is as a consequence of the adultery or that it is independent of the adultery? Illustrate with case law. (25 marks)