The Family Justice Courts (FJC) is planning to introduce a simpler way for a person to take a former spouse to court for failing to allow access to the children after the breakdown of the marriage despite being ordered to do so.
Currently, the enforcement of access orders comes in the form of committal proceedings "which can be lengthy and onerous, with strict procedural steps that have to be complied with", an FJC spokesman told The Straits Times.
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