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HC: Family Division (Uganda)

The Family Division was created in April 2005 as a division of the high court that handles: Administration causes, Family causes, (Adoption, Guardianship, Affiliation/maintenance), Miscellaneous causes, Miscellaneous applications, Civil appeals, Civil suits, Originating summons, Civil revisions and Divorce cases.

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Makindye Chief Magistrates' Court at Mobutu Road .

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Citation	Judgment date
December 1993
Irumba R. v Irumba F. (Divorce Appeal 3 of 1993) [1993] UGHCFD 2 (20 December 1993) Whether Uganda must apply England’s three‑year divorce waiting rule and whether local circumstances permit earlier petitions. Divorce law; interpretation of Reception clause — whether law applied in England is fixed at reception date or dynamic; applicability of Matrimonial Causes Act 1950 to Uganda; three‑year waiting rule and exceptional hardship/depravity proviso; discretion to relax rule in light of Ugandan circumstances.	20 December 1993
Gidudu v Nagudi (Civil Appeal No. 1 of 1988) [1993] UGHCFD 1 (7 December 1993)	7 December 1993