Irfan Ali Thanvi

Ancillary Matters Decided in a Civil Divorce Irfan Ali Thanvi

The purpose of this book is to provide a comparative legal analysis of the joint custody of children in Singapore and Malaysia and their respective approaches to the emerging trends of shared custody. Initiating this Article will seek to exhibit the movement towards shared custody arrangements in Singapore has been a slow process despite the existence of a legal power to make shared custody orders. However, this book will further seek to demonstrate that legislative and judicial changes currently taking place in this field in Singapore show that there is a marked movement towards a greater acceptance of shared custody arrangements and to a limited extent the preferential treatment of this custody model in Singapore Having considered the Singaporean position, this book concentrates on the Malaysian position. The Malaysian approach to shared custody provides an interesting comparison to that of Singapore, as despite both countries having started with the same skepticism towards shared custody, the Malaysian courts have quickly overcome this, resulting in Malaysia now having perhaps the most developed jurisprudence in relation to this subject among Asian jurisdictions.