{"id":2565,"date":"2020-09-09T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:11:41","slug":"custody-of-children-and-maintenance-of-wife-and-children-what-comes-next-on-your-child-after-a-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/custody-of-children-and-maintenance-of-wife-and-children-what-comes-next-on-your-child-after-a-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Custody of Children, and Maintenance of Wife and Children – What comes next on your child after a divorce?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you been wondering what comes next on your child after a divorce? Read on as we will cover the following topic:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Guardianship and Custody of Children, and<\/li>\n
  2. Maintenance of Wife and Children<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    First of all, let us understand how is child defined.<\/p>\n

    Under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1961<\/em> – An infant means a person who has not attained his\/her majority; For Muslim that is under 18 years old, and for Non-Muslim is below 21 years old.<\/p>\n

    Under the Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976<\/em> – A “Child” basically means child of marriage.<\/p>\n

    What is Child of Marriage ?<\/strong>
    \nChild of Marriage basically means the child of both parties to the marriage, this includes illegitimate child, and adopted child below age of 18 years old.<\/p>\n

    Guardianship of the child
    \nGuardianship of Infants Act 1961:
    \nWhat is guardianship?
    \nRelation arise when the child is incapable to manage themselves.
    \nGuardianship includes rights to determine name, discipline and religion of the child.<\/p>\n

    Main consideration taken by court in determining matters relating to guardianship of the child:
    \nTHE WELFARE PRINCIPLE \uf0e0 the welfare of the child<\/p>\n

    The court will also consider the wishes of the parents in line with the welfare principle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1961 – An infant means a person who has not attained his\/her majority; For Muslim that is under 18 years old, and for Non-Muslim is below 21 years old.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1577],"tags":[1559,1560],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-law","tag-maintenance","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}