If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

Icrave4u:
If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

I am not sure but I believe the court respects tradition and may insist on payment of bride price before conducting the court marriage. On the other hand, legality is different from tradition. What is traditional may be illegal and what is legal may be untraditional.

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Icrave4u:
If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

Of course! Legality comes from marrying in the courts. Your brideprices are nothing of the legal route but of the traditional route which ae only accepted but not necessarily recognized as being legal. For a marriage to be certified legal, it has to be registered with the courts.

immortalcrown:
I am not sure but I believe the court respects tradition[b] and may insist on payment of bride price before conducting the court marriage[/b]. On the other hand, legality is different from tradition. What is traditional may be illegal and what is legal may be untraditional.

Stop making stuff up!

Icrave4u:
If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

U re married to her in the face of man, but not in the face of creator...

Check all the religious book. What u will find there is that u should pay a woman dowry, no emphasis on whatever registry u choose to attend

Kobojunkie:
Stop making stuff up!

What stuff did I make up?

Yes, you are legally married. Court marriage don't require bride price nor consent from family members.

But for the sake of peace and avoidance of future wahala pls pay the bride price before going ahead with the court marriage or even after.

I don't know where you are from but here in igboland they don't joke with bride price, it is important and will be talked about for ages. Your children could be regarded as outcast to the extended family too.

But if you get a very understanding family that agree to court marriage only then no issue as they have the right to wave it or make it very affordable even down to just #50 so you will have no issues.

My community here in Enugu will most times say bring #100,000 and when it is presented they will take only one note from the whole money and return the rest to the groom's family. They will tell you that there daughter is not for sale and if maltreated they will take her back.

If the family insist on bride price please do not force your way through with the court marriage as it could be risky, the tussle is not worth it.

Icrave4u:
If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

Bride price is a most.
Court wedding is a foreign concept and not compulsory.
If you want respect from your in-laws,pay bride price first and court wedding after.
You want to carry their daughter with asking for their blessings ni?

tonicyril:

U re married to her in the face of man, but not in the face of creator...

Check all the religious book. What u will find there is that u should pay a woman dowry, no emphasis on whatever registry u choose to attend

Which of the religious books?

judatech:

Which of the religious books?

at least I know of the Bible and quran...and I am sure others would never let u marry a girl without paying her price

Anything you think for your mind

tonicyril:
at least I know of the Bible and quran...and I am sure others would never let u marry a girl without paying her price

Where in the Bible is bride price mentioned?

For me, it is just not the nothing "paying" the bride price but the thought that it is okay for a man not to go with his relatives to go visit his intended's family, establish a relationship, get to have at least a basic knowledge of what each family is all about and both families reflect over whether getting maritally involved with someone from the other family is a good decision.

'Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.'

immortalcrown:
I am not sure but I believe the court respects tradition and may insist on payment of bride price before conducting the court marriage. On the other hand, legality is different from tradition. What is traditional may be illegal and what is legal may be untraditional.

This is not correct. You can do court wedding without paying bride price. Infact when i did mine, only 2 of my friends were present to sign as witness. Our parents were absent because we felt it was unnecessary but for them to travel down.

However, bride price /traditional wedding is what our culture recognize. It has to do with recognition of the couples by the families. It's the most important as far as nigerian families are concerned. You may be deprived of certain traditional benefits if you're not traditionally married. Although those benefits will not prevent you from living your normal lives.

If you are a fan of African traditional culture, then you need to do it to promote the culture

Yourw still single

You're still single and fornicating

What I can't understand is a 37 page bride price lists that IPOB guys pay for yam legs that many Yoruba Demons have mounted.




































Please don't come and cry here. Grown men

Legally, the marriage is legal and valid. The children born during the subsistence of such marriage are legitimate children. But in Africa, you have the stigma of having a "stolen bride."

Icrave4u:
If you marry a lady via court wedding and you didnt pay her bride price are you legally married to her.

Yes. But that's in the eyes of the law only. You're her husband not but not in the eyes of her family "elders". That means they won't recognise you as their SIL and you can't participate in extended family events as a family member. Everything else, you're good.

I know ladies who didn't bother with trad for their second marriage (after a divorce). They felt they didn't want to go through that again since village people had eaten on top their head already.

Bride price, no bride price, marriage wey go sweet and last go do so and vice versa.

IN MY OPINION:

Paying bride is very symbolic and important. It is not the amount paid that is important, in many cultures (aside from those people in the down map that usually sell their daughters....) some still collect as low as 10k, but you might still be given a long list....

BRIDE PRICE IS TRADITIONAL AND SHOULD BE BASED ON WHO YOU ARE MARRYING.
ONLY VIRGINS DESERVE BRIDE PRIDE, OR AT LEAST, BRIDE PRIDE SHOULD BE BASED ON BODYCOUNT.
NON-VIRGIN WH0REZ DON'T DESERVE FULL BRIDE PRICE.
THEIR BRIDE PRICE SHOULD BE DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF THEIR BODYCOUNT.

EVEN AS A MILLIONAIRE, GOD FORBID THAT I WILL PAY FULL BRIDE PRICE ON A GIRL THAT IS NOT A VIRGIN.
EVEN IF HER PAPA SAY HER BRIDE PRICE IS 10K, I WILL STILL DIVIDE IT BY THE NUMBER OF HER BODYCOUNT.

not possible

What of if there's no one to pay the bride price to?

You people must understand this is Africa and not America nor Europe. There are ways to do things here, we are bounded by traditions here. Until the family of the bride accepts your bride price and give out their daughter wholeheartedly to you. You both are just cohabiting. There is a reason traditional institutions are revered and even has been in existence before the almagamation of Nigeria. Please let’s try to respect our culture as Africans have been known to do for ages. I end by saying give unto tradition what is tradition and God to what is God’s.

immortalcrown:
What stuff did I make up?

I believe the court respects tradition and may insist on payment of bride price before conducting the court marriage

What is the basis of this belief? You already said you're not sure - must you go further to add beliefs that you cannot substantiate, thereby misleading the gullible? There is nothing like bride price when it comes to formal legal marriages in Nigeria. Learn to recognize what you don't know and avoid giving opinions on it.

No be marriage na Scam.
Cos the Parent gat dey among those wen go sign for court and na Traditional dem go seal the deal.

Court marriage na shackles 🔗

Shari'a court is also legal!
Shari'a marriage is legal!
Shari'a marriage certificate is also legal!

And I can marry up to four ladies!



Dowry (the bride is priceless) is compulsory in Islamic Shari'a and the payment can be deferred!

I don't think so