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The cabinet today approved a bill that, if passed, could remove a financial constraint that deters many women locked in abusive marriages from seeking divorce.
The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010 aims to give women the right to stake claim to property bought by their husbands within the duration of the marriage, apart from introducing "irretrievable breakdown of marriage" as a new ground for seeking divorce. (See chart)
Social activists say that under current laws, property remains with the spouse in whose name it has been bought or registered, who usually happens to be the husband.
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