ENACTMENT NO. 2 OF 1985 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1985
PART VII – GUARDIANSHIP Hadanah or Custody of Children
Section 83. How right of custody is lost.
The right of hadanah of a woman is lost –
(a) by her marriage with a person not related to the child within the prohibited degrees, but shall revive upon dissolution of the marriage;
(b) by her gross and open immorality;
(c) by her changing her residence so as to prevent the father from exercising the necessary supervision over the child, except that a divorced wife may take her own child to her birth-place;