Marissa was giving instructions to her girls when the unexpected happened.

Well, it was not entirely unexpected, but she had not been expecting how it had happened.

She had called a lawyer she knew through a customer when she was still working at BTB to verify the necessary steps she needed to facilitate a fast divorce. The woman had asked how many years they had been married, and Marissa had informed her that it had just been a few months.

“No, that is not up to the prerequisite year for divorce in Nigeria,” the woman had said, and Marissa’s face fell as she had never heard of that before. She...