49-year-old Uju Nwokolo and her five children are currently reportedly going through therapy from the trauma of abandonment after their Father and bread winner Mr Chiedu Nwokolo abandoned them in Canada and chose to start another life in Nigeria with his side chic – A Lady named Meena Uju Offiah.
SDK Blog reached out Uju Nwokolo and she confirmed the Abandonment story and said she is in shock discovering her husband had remarried in Nigeria….
She declined to say much because the case was in court in Canada but also confirmed that her estranged husband had refused to sign the divorce papers to free her to also move on with her life….
SDK Blog reached out to Meena to find out if she recently married Mr Chiedu Nwokolo who is still Married to Uju Nwokolo in Canada.. After hearing me out, she sighed and said she was in a family meeting and would call back but never did. I told her the story would run the next day and she said OK.
Uju and Chiedu were married for over 25 years before things fell apart.. Insiders finger Meena as the reason for the crash of the Marriage which produced 4 Females and One male.
If Meena reaches out to SDK Blog to deny the allegations, we would publish her own side of the story because there are always more than two sides to every story.
What happens if your spouse just ups and leaves? Can you press charges? Is there an automatic right to divorce?
A reader recently posed these questions. Simply put, the answer is no.
In Canada, we have what can be effectively termed “no fault” divorce. This means that a Court does not have to find one spouse or the other is at fault for the breakdown of the marriage. So although it may be “wrong” for your partner to abandon you, it is not “illegal” and it is not a valid ground for divorce.
The only ground for a divorce in Canada in the Divorce Act is “marriage breakdown”. The Divorce Act says you can show your marriage has broken down if any one of the following criteria applies to you:
- You have been living apart for one year or more.
- Your spouse has been physically or mentally cruel to you.
- Your spouse has committed adultery.
It is most common for a spouse to divorce based on having lived “separate and apart” with no reasonable prospect of reconciliation for at least one year. You do not need to establish that one spouse behaved badly in order to secure a divorce on the basis of a one-year separation.
The other two grounds for divorce are much more difficult to rely on: you can seek a divorce on the grounds that your spouse committed adultery, or treated you with such mental or physical cruelty as to render continued cohabitation intolerable. A divorce on either of these grounds is available less than one year after separation. However, unless your spouse is willing to admit to this behaviour – which for obvious reasons, not many people would – you must prove these grounds and it can be very costly to do so.
So if your spouse does up and leave you, you have remedies – you could file for divorce or initiate a court application for spousal support, or if you have children, child support – but a charge or declaration of “spousal abandonment” is not one of these remedies.
If you are considering a divorce or you and your spouse have been living apart for a significant amount of time, contact Eyitayo Dada Law Firm
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