A lawyer has sued the Attorney General and the Registrar of Marriages over the mandatory requirement for couples in customary marriages to register them.
In his case filed before High Court Judge Chacha Mwita, lawyer Rodgers Moda argued that Sections 42, 44, 45, 55, and 96 of the Marriage Act, 2014 and the Customary Marriages Rules 2017 unfairly create a loophole to delegitimise marriages despite persons who are in such mutually agree to be bound by them.
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