When a couple with children separates, what happens next? In this episode, Ms June Lim (Eden Law Corporation, Singapore) and Ms Kee Hui Yee (Kanesalingam & Co, Malaysia) focus on child custody, access, and care arrangements in Singapore and Malaysia. 

You’ll learn how custody, care and control, and access are defined and applied in each jurisdiction — and the factors that the Courts consider when deciding who the child lives with and how visitation rights or access is handled. 

The episode also touches on cross-border parenting challenges, parental abduction, and the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction — critical topics for international families. 

Whether you are co-parenting across borders, planning post-divorce care arrangements, or just want to understand how the law protects children in divorce, this episode offers a compassionate, clear legal perspective on one of the most emotionally taxing parts of family law. 

This episode dives into: 

Custody vs care and control vs access  

Shared parenting arrangements in Singapore 

Access orders  

Enforcement challenges in cross-border cases 

Parental abduction and the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction 

If you are navigating marriage breakdowns, or simply curious about how divorce and family matters are handled in Singapore and Malaysia — this series is for you.