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No marriage, no matrimonial property, Court of Appeal says

The woman argued that he had admitted that he neither paid dowry, had a church wedding nor registered their bliss as a marriage as required by the law. [iStockphoto]

A man’s quest to get a part of a land he allegedly gifted his girlfriend back in 1992 has ended in tears after the Court of Appeal ruled that there was no evidence to show it was a matrimonial property.

The man sued his girlfriend, with whom he had allegedly cohabited for the last 24 years, claiming that he bought the property she was living in Kilifi County, and that theirs was more than a friendship.

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