Kelly-Lambo v Lambo [2023] WTLR 255

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2023 #190

The claimant and the defendant both claimed to be the surviving spouse of the deceased, who died intestate, and each sought letters of administration of his estate. The claimant denied the defendant had ever married the deceased, and the defendant relied upon a purported certified copy of a Nigerian marriage certificate from 1962, and her own recollection of the ceremony, as evidence of the marriage. The defendant admitted the claimant had married the deceased in Nigeria in 1993, but asserted that they had divorced in 2000 and relied upon a purported order of the Chief Registrar of the L...