SINGAPORE - In the five years following the amendment of the Women's Charter to allow incapacitated husbands to claim maintenance from their wives or former wives, few men have done so.
In fact, the Family Justice Courts (FJC) received fewer than 20 such applications between 2017 and last year, its spokesman told The Straits Times.
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