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“Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan

A marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman which brings about intense happiness, an experience of positive emotions with a deep level of life satisfaction. Couples who enters into a contract of marriage, definitely intends to make their marriage a successful long lasting marriage. Howeve...

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Main Authors: Randawar, Daleleer Kaur, Jayabalan, Sheela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis 2017
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Divorce
Civil law
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spelling my.uitm.ir.407372021-01-27T07:27:11Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40737/ “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan Randawar, Daleleer Kaur Jayabalan, Sheela Divorce Civil law A marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman which brings about intense happiness, an experience of positive emotions with a deep level of life satisfaction. Couples who enters into a contract of marriage, definitely intends to make their marriage a successful long lasting marriage. However, not all are fortunate enough to enjoy a long lasting marriage. Some are even more unfortunate to suffer a breakdown of marriage in the early years of the marriage, which is within two years of their marriage. Divorce can be ugly at the best of times, but when it happens at an initial stage of a marriage, which is within two years of a marriage, the court often becomes even more aggressive and adversarial. Only in exceptional circumstances would a marriage be dissolved within two years of the marriage. This article attempts to explore to what extent the courts will grant a divorce on the exceptional circumstances. Discussion will explore as to how the law reconciles and expends these exceptional circumstances in marriage which petitions for divorce within this specified period. Research methodologies applied are analysis of the primary and secondary materials and comparative study. Analysis of the data will be done via examining statutory provisions and case law. Discussion reveals that although there is a need to prove exceptional circumstances in order to petition within two years of marriage, in reality it may be difficult to bring the case to court unless these exceptional circumstances is proven. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis 2017-06 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40737/1/40737.pdf Randawar, Daleleer Kaur and Jayabalan, Sheela (2017) “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan. Jurnal Intelek, 12 (1). pp. 63-67. ISSN 2682-9223 https://jurnalintelek.uitm.edu.my/index.php/main
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topic Divorce
Civil law
spellingShingle Divorce
Civil law
Randawar, Daleleer Kaur
Jayabalan, Sheela
“Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
description A marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman which brings about intense happiness, an experience of positive emotions with a deep level of life satisfaction. Couples who enters into a contract of marriage, definitely intends to make their marriage a successful long lasting marriage. However, not all are fortunate enough to enjoy a long lasting marriage. Some are even more unfortunate to suffer a breakdown of marriage in the early years of the marriage, which is within two years of their marriage. Divorce can be ugly at the best of times, but when it happens at an initial stage of a marriage, which is within two years of a marriage, the court often becomes even more aggressive and adversarial. Only in exceptional circumstances would a marriage be dissolved within two years of the marriage. This article attempts to explore to what extent the courts will grant a divorce on the exceptional circumstances. Discussion will explore as to how the law reconciles and expends these exceptional circumstances in marriage which petitions for divorce within this specified period. Research methodologies applied are analysis of the primary and secondary materials and comparative study. Analysis of the data will be done via examining statutory provisions and case law. Discussion reveals that although there is a need to prove exceptional circumstances in order to petition within two years of marriage, in reality it may be difficult to bring the case to court unless these exceptional circumstances is proven.
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title “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
title_short “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
title_full “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
title_fullStr “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
title_full_unstemmed “Quickie Divorce”: legal impediments in Malaysia / Daleleer Kaur Randawar and Sheela Jayabalan
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publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis
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