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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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November 2016
Malinga & Ors v Malinga & Anor (HCT-04-CV-MA-0080-2016) [2016] UGHCFD 38 (23 November 2016)
Application for temporary injunction to restrain administrators dismissed for lack of evidence of threatened alienation or irreparable harm.
Civil procedure – interlocutory injunction – requirements of prima facie case, preservation of status quo, irreparable injury, and balance of convenience; Letters of Administration – effect on status quo; burden of evidencing alleged risk of alienation of estate assets.
 23 November 2016
Piarasingh & Anor v Sukhveer (Civil Suit No. 52 of 2012) [2016] UGHCFD 144 (14 November 2016)
Grant of administration upheld; no fraud proved; plaintiffs not dependants; defendant ordered to file inventory and accounts.
Succession law – validity of foreign (Indian/Sikh) marriage – proof and admissibility of marriage certificates; Letters of administration – advertising, caveats and proper grant to widow; Dependants – requirement to prove whole or substantial dependence under Succession Act; Revocation of grant – necessity to show fraud or willful omission to exhibit inventory/accounts; Court’s inherent and equitable powers to require filing of inventory and accounts to protect estate.
 14 November 2016