NDLI: Women’s Rights to Property in Marriage, Divorce, and Widowhood in Uganda: The Problematic Aspects

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Author	Kafumbe, Anthony Luyirika
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This article examines women’s rights to property in marriage, upon divorce, and upon the death of a spouse in Uganda, highlighting the problematic aspects in both the state-made (statutory) and non-state-made (customary and religious) laws. It argues that, with the exception of the 1995 Constitution, the subordinate laws that regulate the distribution, management, and ownership of property during marriage, upon divorce, and death of a spouse are discriminatory of women. It is shown that even where the relevant statutory laws are protective of women’s rights to property, their implementation is hindered by customary law practices, socialization, and the generally weak economic capacity of many women in the country. The article delves into the even weaker position of women’s rights to matrimonial property at customary and religious laws. In many homes, wives provide labor to support their husbands without having a stake in the use or monetary benefit from it. Under Islamic law regulating intestate succession to property, the entitlements for widows fall short of the constitutional standards on equality and non-discrimination. Polygyny is widely practiced by Muslims implying that the widows share the one eighth whenever there are children or one fourth in cases when there are no children. Radical reforms such as adopting an immediate community property regime instead of the present separate property regime are inevitable if women’s rights to property are to advance.
Starting Page	199
Ending Page	221
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15248879
Journal	Human Rights Review
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-01-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Marriage Women’s rights Matrimonial property Political Science Political Philosophy Ethics Philosophy of Law Law Theory/Law Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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