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Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth
Parliamentary Matters

Statistics of Divorces In the Syariah Court regarding shared care and control of children

Sectors

Community

10 January 2022

Response to parliamentary questions on percentage of divorces in the Syariah Court that has resulted in shared care and control of the children.

  1. The Syariah Court’s mission is to save marriages, settle divorces amicably and deliver just outcomes. The Syariah Court has support services for divorcing couples and their minor children. These support services such as the Marriage Counselling Programme are premised on taking a child-centric approach towards handling divorce cases to safeguard the paramount interest and well-being of children affected by divorce and encourages co-parenting regardless of which parent has the care and control of the child.

  2. Today, the information on shared care and control for Muslim divorces is captured under individual court orders, and will take time to manually collate. Nonetheless, the Syariah Court is embarking on efforts to digitalise its processes and over time, such data will be captured in digital form, making it easier to generate statistics. 

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