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Kamanga v Kasongo (Miscellaneous Cause 1 of 2025) [2025] MWHCFam 3 (14 March 2025)
The High Court refused a mother's request to take three children to Canada, finding the relocation lacked sufficient proof of stable housing, finances, and legal compliance.
Kulinji v Mlabowa (Matrimonial Cause 29 of 2023) [2025] MWHCFam 2 (11 March 2025)
The respondent is entitled to a beneficial interest in all property acquired during the marriage, including the house, shop, farming business, and Mazda Demio, based on the principle that equality is equity, recognizing her non-financial contributions and the economic disadvantage resulting from her role as homemaker.
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The High Court’s Family and Probate Division held that a partnership-and-property dispute was commercial in nature, lacked jurisdiction, and was transferred.
Almeida v Almeida (Being Civil Appeal No. 6 of 2024) [2025] MWHC 8 (3 February 2025)
All issues relating to custody, visitation, and access—including the mother's intended relocation—can and should be resolved within the pending appeal before this court; all other proceedings in other courts are stayed until the appeal is determined to finality.
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Kaipa v Chinzenga (Matrimonial Review Cause No. 2 of 2025 (Being Civil Cause No. 682 of 2025)) [2025] MWHC 2 (22 January 2025)
The High Court of Malawi quashed a custody order and granted primary custody of a four-month-old child to the mother, emphasizing breastfeeding and the child’s best interests.
Kadzakumanja v Kadzakumanja & Chasweka (Being High Court, Lilongwe Registry, Family & Probate Division, Probate Cause No. 623 of 2020) [2025] MWHCFam 1 (22 January 2025)
Applications for leave to appeal and stay of execution are dismissed because the judgment is inchoate and not eligible for appeal or stay; proper procedure requires application for stay in the court below when concurrent jurisdiction exists.
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Almeida v Almeida (18 of 2024) [2024] MWHCFam 3 (29 November 2024)
The High Court of Malawi denied leave to appeal, holding that the family dispute was still in progress and that piecemeal appeals should be avoided.
Goodson v Chidothi (Civil Appeal 6 of 2020) [2024] MWHC 50 (4 October 2024)
The High Court partially allowed a matrimonial appeal, upheld the existence of a customary marriage, revised property distribution, and dissolved the marriage.
Order on distribution of matrimonial property after divorce between Alfonso Mbiza and Christina Chapotera, apportioning the Nyambadwe and Mdeka houses and dismissing several other claims.
The High Court granted leave to the respondent to file pleadings out of time in a divorce cause, holding that service on her lawyers was effective and that fairness and access to justice required a hearing.
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