{"id":42069,"date":"2015-07-03T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42069"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:46:51","slug":"malawi-marriage-divorce-and-family-relations-act-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/malawi-marriage-divorce-and-family-relations-act-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 15:01, 5th Revised Edition of the Laws of Malawi , 2018<\/p>\n<p>Extract:<\/p>\n<p>Part IX \u2013 Rights and obligations of parties to a marriage<br \/>\n48. [&#8230;]<br \/>\n(4) Notwithstanding any other written law to the contrary in force at the commencement of this Act, a spouse has the right to retain his or her nationality or citizenship during the subsistence of the marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/malawilii.org\/akn\/mw\/act\/2015\/4\/eng@2017-12-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/malawilii.org\/akn\/mw\/act\/2015\/4\/eng@2017-12-31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chapter 15:01, 5th Revised Edition of the Laws of Malawi , 2018 Extract: Part IX \u2013 Rights and obligations of parties to a marriage 48. [&#8230;] (4) Notwithstanding any other written law to the contrary in force at the commencement of this Act, a spouse has the right to retain his or her nationality or [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-malawi","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-396","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42070,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069\/revisions\/42070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}