A woman claims a man persuaded her to leave her employment after assuring her that he would support her financially until they got married.

📋 Breaking It Down

She believed she had found a man who would become her husband and built her plans around assurances that marriage was around the corner.

She left her job at a salon, where she earned Sh10,000 a month, after the man promised to pay her Sh40,000 a month until they got married.

The relationship later collapsed, leaving SNK with what she said were financial and emotional losses. She told the High Court that she was eventually thrown out and her belongings placed in a warehouse.

📌 What You Need to Know

What followed was not simply a painful breakup but a legal battle over whether the promises made during their relationship could be enforced in court.

The dispute, SNK v GT, is among a number of Kenyan cases that reveal the complicated history of broken marriage promises — and the difficult line courts have had to draw between a broken heart and a legally enforceable right.

The dispute became a legal battle over a question that has confronted Kenyan courts for decades: Can a person be held legally responsible for promising to marry someone and then walking away?

Section 76 of the Marriage Act provides that, except where the law provides otherwise, “a promise by a person to marry another person is not binding.”

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In simple terms, telling someone that you will marry them does not, on its own, create a legal obligation to go through with the wedding.

📰 Source: Nation Africa