The Chairperson of the Executive Council of LAWA Ghana, Sheila Minkah Premo, has given a comprehensive explanation to what the law says about where baby mamas and side chicks stands in a man’s life with regards to asset distribution and property entitlements.
In an interview with Samson Lardy Anyenini, Sheila Minkah Premo revealed that new Interstate Succession Bill didn’t make provision concubines, herein side chicks and baby mamas of a male lover when he dies.
According to the legal practitioner, all attempts to make people who have cohabitated with the deceased for 5 years party of his successors proved unsuccessful.
She interpreted the law by saying;
“These two laws based on Article 22 have gone side by side. The Intestate Succession Bill and the Property Rights of Spouses Bill. In an earlier version of the Property Rights of Spouses Bill, an attempt was made to make provision for cohabitees who have lived for five years, but that was strongly objected to. So the last draft of the Property Rights of Spouses Bill, that has been totally taken off. The idea is that, they said, if you look at Article 22, it talks about spouses, it doesn’t talk about anything else,”
She however revealed that children of the deceased whether born in marriage or out of marriage are entitled to his property.
“But in this case, the children will benefit. Remember, the definition of children is children, whether born within or outside a marriage. So the children will benefit.
“But unfortunately, the ‘Baby mama’ and ‘side chicks’ will not benefit, she stressed.
Source:Ghgossip.com
