ENACTMENT NO. 8 OF 2004 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 2004
PART VII - GUARDIANSHIP Hadhanah or Custody of Children
Section 84. How right of custody is lost.
The right of hadhanah of a woman is lost-
(a) by her marriage with a person not related to the child within the prohibited degrees if her custody in such case will affect the welfare of the child but her right to custody will revert if the marriage is dissolved;
(b) by her gross and open immorality;
(c) by her changing her residence so as to prevent the father form exercising the necessary supervision over the child, except that a divorced wife may take her own child to her birth-place;