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In a unanimous decision the Court of Appeal presided over by Justices Elizabeth Musoke, Muzamiru Kibeedi and Christopher Gashirabake, JJA, has pronounced itself – with far reaching consequences on the rights of married persons when sharing matrimonial properties after divorce. In the judgment in the case of Ambayo Versus Aserua Civil Appeal No. 100 of 2015 the court stated that marriage does not give a spouse an automatic half-share in the matrimonial property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A spouse\u2019s share in the matrimonial property is dependent on his or her contribution to it. The contribution can take either monetary or non-monetary forms or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The non-monetary contribution usually consists of \u201cunpaid care and domestic work\u201d rendered by a spouse during the marriage like caring for the children, elderly and the sick members of the family, household chores, cultivating food for the family subsistence et cetra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court also guided that when court is determining the value of the \u201cunpaid care and domestic work\u201d rendered during the marriage it should take into account monetary value principles like the value or cost of similar or substitute services available on the labour or service market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6Where one party has, in the course of the marriage, contributed towards upgrading the other spouse in terms of educating her\/him, such contributions should be deducted from the beneficiary spouse\u2019s total claim for \u201cunpaid care and domestic work\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a unanimous decision the Court of Appeal presided over by Justices Elizabeth Musoke, Muzamiru Kibeedi and Christopher Gashirabake, JJA,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[216,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download-3.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11280,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/molly-katanga-remanded-to-luzira-prison-over-murder-of-her-husband\/","url_meta":{"origin":7293,"position":0},"title":"Molly Katanga Remanded To Luzira Prison Over Murder Of Her Husband","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"January 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"After a warrant of arrest was issued by a magistrate 's court ,Kampala money lender Molly Katanga, appeared before a Nakawa Magistrate and was formally charged with murder of her husband, Henry Katanga.\u00a0 The Magistrate Court committed Molly Katanga to the High Court of Uganda for trial and she was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "National News"","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/molly.png","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/molly.png 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/molly.png 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/molly.png 2x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/molly.png 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13676,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/high-court-in-lira-orders-government-to-pay-ugx-236m-to-war-claimant\/","url_meta":{"origin":7293,"position":1},"title":"High Court In Lira Orders Government To Pay UGX 236M To War Claimant","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"January 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The High Court in Lira has ordered the government through the Attorney General (AG)'s office led by , Kiryowa Kiwanuka, to pay UGX 236 million in compensation for livestock stolen by the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) during the insurgency in 2011. 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