Each link leads to the page of the site devoted to that topic for this country. The general topic sits at the top of each of those pages.
The country in brief
Ghana, 34 million people, recognises three kinds of marriage — under the Ordinance (monogamous), customary (potentially polygamous) and Islamic — with the Matrimonial Causes Act 1971 governing divorce and the Intestate Succession Law of 1985 protecting widows and children when there is no will. The Domestic Violence Act 2007 created protection orders and the Children's Act sets the marriage age at 18.
Abortion has been lawful since 1985 in cases of rape, incest, risk to health or foetal abnormality, a relatively open regime for the region, while same-sex relations remain criminalised and a harsher bill has been debated since 2021. The pages below give the Ghanaian rule for each theme of the site, the procedures in Accra and the regions, and the services to contact.
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What the article says about this country — each link goes straight to the custom:
Advice
- Adoption
- Childcare
- Copyright
- Data protection
- Divorce
- Domestic violence
- Fundamental rights
- Healthy, good-looking teeth
- Identity theft
- Image rights
- Inheritance
- International dating
- Marriage
- Matrimonial property and inheritance
- Naming law, country by country
- Online shopping
- Partnerships and cohabitation
- Privacy
- Romance scams
- Same-sex marriage
- Sexual offences committed abroad
- Speech and online harassment
- Step-families
- The religious ceremony
- Wedding customs and ceremonies
- When your teenager's first relationship begins
Health
Sexuality
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