{"id":8058,"date":"2018-12-18T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:27:55","slug":"why-you-may-legally-not-be-married-even-after-signing-a-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=8058","title":{"rendered":"Why you need to register your customary marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Maria Immaculate Owechi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, drama unfolded on Bukedde TV\u2019s local news bulletin, <em>Agataliko Nfuufu<\/em> when a woman showed up in church to stop her husband\u2019s wedding to his third companion. Erisa Ssettuba (78)\u00a0 who has three partners was shocked when his estranged second \u2018wife\u2019, Betty Nakityo showed up with a customary marriage certificate to stop his wedding with partner number three, Teopista Nabakooza.<\/p>\n<p>Nakityo presented a customary certificate to Martyr\u2019s Church, Nateete where the wedding was being held. To her shock however, the wedding commenced because her certificate was considered invalid. Why? You may ask.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmyweddingug%2Fvideos%2F1853880321406838%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSome people assume that the certificate was invalid because it was from a customary\/ traditional marriage and not a church wedding.\u00a0 That is not true. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/lifestyle\/heart-to-heart\/why-you-need-to-register-your-customary-marriage-4154042\">Click to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Immaculate Owechi Last week, drama unfolded on Bukedde TV\u2019s local news bulletin, Agataliko Nfuufu when a woman showed up in church to stop her husband\u2019s wedding to his third companion. Erisa Ssettuba (78)\u00a0 who has three partners was shocked when his estranged second \u2018wife\u2019, Betty Nakityo showed up with a customary marriage certificate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[1141,1136,1134,954,1129,261,396,1139,1128,1140,1142,1143,1133,1137,1138,1130,1132,1131,1135],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwanjula","tag-agataliiko-nfuufu","tag-banyankole","tag-bemanya-twebaze","tag-bukedde-tv","tag-cutomary-marriage","tag-kuhingira","tag-kwanjula","tag-madi-community-in-west-nile","tag-marraige","tag-marriage-registration-act-of-uganda","tag-martyrs-church","tag-nateete","tag-national-social-security-fund-nssf","tag-rango-nyako-in-lango","tag-retedka","tag-traditional-marriage","tag-uganda-beareau-of-registration-services","tag-ursb","tag-ursb-registrar-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":1785,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"enantambi","display_name":"Esther Nantambi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1fa0f938f32d805446562e1bb7c32da6a6c7e51bd320fd89d4ba0819146b78d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Esther","last_name":"Nantambi","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23821,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/23821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}