The number of legal enquiries on polygamy is rising sharply rising according to statistics from Telenisa Legal Clinic.
SIS Program Manager Shareena Sheriff said most polygamy-related complaints were by wives whose husbands entered into subsequent marriages without theirThis is because amendments to the law in 1994 and 2006 have made it easier for polygamous marriages to be done in secret, she claimed. “This is the weakness of our law. They can just come back to Malaysia for registration. That’s how the marriages remain secret,” she said at the launch of the Telenisa’ statistics & findings of 2018 at Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur today.
Aside from polygamy, Telenisa Legal Clinic also handled complaints from wives whose husbands no longer supported them and their children in the form of maintenance following a polygamous marriage.
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