Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction / Roberts, Simon -- 2. Establishing paternity and demanding child support in a Ghanaian town / Lowy, Michael J. -- 3. Law in the context of Nkoya society / Binsbergen, Wim M.J. van -- 4. Family dispute settlement and the Zambian judiciary: local-level legal adaptation / Canter, Richard S. -- 5. To claim or not to claim: changing views about the restitution of marriage prestations among the Anufom in Northern Togo / Nieuwaal, Els Van / Rouveroy, Emile Van -- 6. Judicial manipulation of customary family law in Tanzania / Sawyerr, Akilagpa -- 8. Problems of creation and dissolution of customary marriages in Nigeria / Achike, Okay -- 9. The effect of marriage on the status of children in Ghana / Daniels, W.C. Ekow -- 10. The choice of law dilemma in Lesotho: some criteria for decision making in family law / Poulter, Sebastian -- 11. Marriage in Kwahu, Ghana / Bleek, Wolf -- 12. The emergence of the 'stranger-permit marriage' and other new forms of conjugal union in rural Sierra Leone / Harrell-Bond, Barbara E. / Rijnsdorp, Ulrica -- 13. Nullity of marriage and divorce: relevance of a western distinction to modern African law / Pauwels, Johan -- 14. The Kgatla marriage: concepts of validity / Roberts, Simon -- Bibliographyweiterlesen