Abstract
On 14 June, 1985, the Provisional National Defence Council of Ghana promulgated a series of laws designed to give better security for widows and their children, provide an effective machinery for the registration of customary marriage and divorce and render heads of family statutorily accountable to their members. They are: Intestate Succession Law, Customary Marriage and Divorce Registration Law and Head of Family (Accountability) Law. There is no doubt that the enactment of these laws marks a significant turning point and a new concept of family property law, even though the impact of the laws is yet to permeate into the social fabric of the Ghanaian community as a whole.
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