Woman in property row gets nod to challenge come-we-stay union

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Mary Nyambura is challenging whether she should share her house with a man she disputes to have been married to. [Courtesy]
The Supreme Court has allowed a woman to challenge the Court of Appeal’s verdict tying her to a man she disputes to have been married to for 33 years.
The court gave Mary Nyambura a chance to challenge whether a come-we-stay relationship with Paul Ogari in 1986 was a marriage and if she should share her house with him.
Court of Appeal had found the woman’s insistence that she was not qualified to marry the man was an afterthought. It ordered her to sell her property and share the proceeds with him equally.

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