Islamic family law recognises protections for family members, yet their relevance to Muslim family resilience requires examination beyond formal entitlements. This study examines how legal recognition, procedural accessibility, and enforcement inform family protection in Indonesia and Malaysia. A qualitative, literature-based comparative approach synthesises published research on post-divorce rights, institutional support, and family adaptation. The synthesis identifies procedural differences in addressing women’s claims and highlights the distinction between obtaining judicial awards and receiving effective remedies. Institutional assistance and sociocultural resources emerge as potentially complementary conditions of adaptation, although the reviewed evidence does not establish causal relationships or national superiority. The study proposes a framework linking entitlement recognition, procedural accessibility, and remedy realisation to resilience-relevant protection. Its contribution lies in connecting comparative family-law analysis with adaptive functioning without equating resilience with marital continuity. Future research should test this framework using jurisdiction-specific implementation evidence and longitudinal household data.
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