Before The Vows: Is Your Marriage Legally Valid Under the Ghanaian Law

Conversion by Religion is where parties in polygamous marriage change their religion and the religion only recognizes monogamous marriages, then by virtue of joining that religion, the marriage will convert to monogamous marriage. However, this is not recognized under the Ghanaian law. In Barake v. Barake , the Court held that where parties marry under the Ordinance, a subsequent conversion to Islam does not alter the monogamous incidents of that marriage so as to give the husband capacity to marry another wife polygamously.