APP - One woman, two husbands

[tekkychick]

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/08/26/One-Kenyan-woman-two-husbands-in-wife-sharing-arrangement/UPI-90561377557811/

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Two men in Kenya have signed an agreement to marry the same woman, which a lawyer says will be legal if they can prove the practice is part of tribal custom.

The agreement includes a schedule for Sylvester Mwendwa and Elijah Kimani to live in her house, and states both will help raise any children. The woman has been having affairs with both men for four years, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.

A community policing officer said the two men were persuaded to joint-marry the unidentified woman after he saw them fighting over her, the local newspaper Daily Nation reported.

Kenyan family lawyer Judy Thongori said the law does not explicitly forbid polyandry, the practice of a woman married to more than one man, asking "whether these people come from communities that have been practicing polyandry."

The BBC said polyandry is not practiced by any community in Kenya

Mwendwa acknowledged the arrangement may in in breach of the law, but he had decided to enter into a contract with Kimani and the wife to end the rivalry between the two men.

"Our arrangement is good as it sets boundaries and helps us keep peace," he said.

I wish them all the best of luck; but apparently some of the people there aren't happy with the switch in roles, one of the husbands was fired from his job (read in an offline article), and some think this is too anti-Muslim.
http://www.africareview.com/News/Kenyan+love+rivals+sign+deal+to+share+woman/-/979180/1968410/-/lp3pcvz/-/index.html

Locals, however, have not taken the news kindly, saying the three should be taken to court.

"We have never heard of something like this in Kenya, it is uncouth, untraditional unbiblical and against the holy books, including the Koran. Why on earth would a woman be shared by two men? They should be taken to court and punished,” said Mr Tumaini Juma, a Kisauni resident.

 

[Auster]

Polyandry? It would help the whole overpopulated world thing.

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

Polyandry and polyamory are not as uncommon as you might think. Unfortunately, the second spouse has no legal standing. But that doesn't stop it. I have some good friends who have a triad. It works for them.