Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview

Abduction often involves the parents of the child. After a marriage is dissolved most parents will want to have custody of the children. The party that is unable to lawfully obtain custody of children sometimes resort to abduction. Abduction of children is an issue that raises concern due to its...

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Main Authors:	Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina, Abdul Hak, Nora, Alkali, Alhaji Umar
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Law, Accountancy and International Relations, UniSZA 2015
Subjects:	KPG Malaysia
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/1/parental_child_abduction.pdf

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spelling	iium-431802016-05-20T02:29:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/ Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina Abdul Hak, Nora Alkali, Alhaji Umar KPG Malaysia Abduction often involves the parents of the child. After a marriage is dissolved most parents will want to have custody of the children. The party that is unable to lawfully obtain custody of children sometimes resort to abduction. Abduction of children is an issue that raises concern due to its effect on the child. Abducted children are sometimes even taken outside the country of abduction to another country by the non-custodian parent in order to prevent tracing and punishment. These attributes of abduction have a far reaching negative consequence on the child. The sudden separation of the child with his environment and the attempt to hide the child negatively affects the child physically and psychologically. Though there is no specific provision on parental abduction, the Malaysian and Nigerian laws prohibit child abduction generally and prescribe punishment for the crime. The paper examines the position of parental child abduction under the Malaysian and Nigerian laws and the approach of the courts in dealing with the matter. The paper also briefly discusses the position of child abduction under Islamic law and suggests ways through which much protection will be provided to children against parental child abduction. Doctrinal methodology is used in the paper in arriving at the findings of the work. Faculty of Law, Accountancy and International Relations, UniSZA 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/1/parental_child_abduction.pdf Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina and Abdul Hak, Nora and Alkali, Alhaji Umar (2015) Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview. In: 4th International Conference on Law & Society (ICLAS IV) 2015 , 10th-11th May 2015, Auditorium, Academic Building (UniSZA), Kuala Trengganu. http://www.unisza.edu.my/iclas2015/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=101
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spellingShingle	KPG Malaysia Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina Abdul Hak, Nora Alkali, Alhaji Umar Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
description	Abduction often involves the parents of the child. After a marriage is dissolved most parents will want to have custody of the children. The party that is unable to lawfully obtain custody of children sometimes resort to abduction. Abduction of children is an issue that raises concern due to its effect on the child. Abducted children are sometimes even taken outside the country of abduction to another country by the non-custodian parent in order to prevent tracing and punishment. These attributes of abduction have a far reaching negative consequence on the child. The sudden separation of the child with his environment and the attempt to hide the child negatively affects the child physically and psychologically. Though there is no specific provision on parental abduction, the Malaysian and Nigerian laws prohibit child abduction generally and prescribe punishment for the crime. The paper examines the position of parental child abduction under the Malaysian and Nigerian laws and the approach of the courts in dealing with the matter. The paper also briefly discusses the position of child abduction under Islamic law and suggests ways through which much protection will be provided to children against parental child abduction. Doctrinal methodology is used in the paper in arriving at the findings of the work.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina Abdul Hak, Nora Alkali, Alhaji Umar
author_facet	Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina Abdul Hak, Nora Alkali, Alhaji Umar
author_sort	Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
title	Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
title_short	Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
title_full	Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
title_fullStr	Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
title_full_unstemmed	Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview
title_sort	parental child abduction in malaysia and nigeria: an overview
publisher	Faculty of Law, Accountancy and International Relations, UniSZA
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43180/1/parental_child_abduction.pdf
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Parental child abduction in Malaysia and Nigeria: an overview

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