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The Matrimonial Property Bill. 2013
including(a) ·the customary law relating to
dissolution of marriage;
~ivorce
or
(b) the principle of protection of rights of future
generations to community and ancestral land
as provided for under Article 63 of the
Constitution; and
(c)
Special
provisions
relating to
matrimonia~
property .
the principles relating to access and
utilization of ancestral land and the cultural
home by a wife or wives or former wife or
wives.
12. (I) An estate or interest in any matrimonial
property shall not, during the subsistence of a
monogamous marriage and without the consent of both
spouses be alienated in any form, wh"ether by way of
sale, gift, lease, mortgage or otherwise.
(2) A spouse in a monogamous marriage, or in
the case of a polygamous marriage, the man and any of
the man's wives, have an interest in matrimonial property
capable of protection by aaveat, caution ·or otherwise
under any law for the time being in force relating to the
registration of title to land or of deeds.
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(3) A spouse shall not, during the subsistence of
the marriage, be evicted from the matrimQnial home by
or at t~e instance of the other spouse except by order of a
court.
(4) Subject to subsection (3), a spouse shall not
be evicted from the matrimonial home by any person
except(a)
on the sale of any esta~e or interest in the
matrimonial home in execution of a decree;
(b)
by a trustee in bankruptcy; or