Max Tam Yuen Hung, Advocate and Solicitor and founder of TYH & Co., is available to journalists for comment, background briefings and interviews on non-Muslim divorce and family law in Malaysia. It is the only area he has practised since 2017. Requests are answered within two working days.
- Spokesperson
- Max Tam Yuen Hung, Advocate & Solicitor, founder and managing partner
- Specialism
- Non-Muslim divorce and family law in Malaysia, exclusively, since 2017
- max@tyhlegal.my
- Mobile and WhatsApp
- 016-947 3338 (+60 16 947 3338)
- Response time
- Within 2 working days. If you are on deadline, mark the subject line URGENT and call the mobile number above.
- Interview languages
- English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Cantonese
- Formats
- Written quotes, phone, video call, in-studio, podcast, panel and event speaking
- Based in
- Klang Valley, Malaysia (GMT+8). Offices in Cheras and Klang in Selangor, and Johor Bahru.
What Max Tam can comment on
He practises in one area only. Within non-Muslim divorce and family law, these are the specific subjects he handles daily and can speak to on the record.
Divorce grounds and procedure
Joint petitions and single petitions under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976, the difference in cost and duration between them, the marriage counselling requirement at the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, and applications to divorce inside the first two years of marriage.
Child custody, care and control, and access
How the courts decide custody in practice as opposed to what parents assume, the distinction between custody and care and control, variation of existing orders, and what happens when one parent does not comply.
Maintenance for spouse and children
How maintenance is assessed, when an order can be varied, and the options when a paying party stops paying.
Division of matrimonial assets
How the courts approach division, the treatment of property acquired before and during the marriage, and how non-financial contribution is weighed.
Annulment and judicial separation
When a marriage can be annulled rather than dissolved, how judicial separation differs from divorce, and when each is the better route.
Cross-border divorce and foreign marriages
Divorce where one spouse lives overseas, marriages registered abroad, domicile requirements, registering an overseas divorce in Malaysia, and how proceedings work for Malaysians based outside the country.
Not covered. Anything outside non-Muslim divorce and family law, including criminal, tenancy, debt, employment, property and corporate matters, and any case in which TYH & Co. currently acts. If a subject falls outside his area he will say so rather than speculate, and can usually point you to someone who does practise in it.
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Max Tam Yuen Hung is a Malaysian Advocate and Solicitor and founder of TYH & Co., practising in non-Muslim divorce and family law since 2017.
Max Tam Yuen Hung is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and the founder of Tam Yuen Hung & Co. (TYH & Co.), a Malaysian law firm with offices in Cheras and Klang in Selangor, and Johor Bahru. Admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2016, he has practised exclusively in non-Muslim divorce and family law since 2017.
Max Tam Yuen Hung is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and the founder of Tam Yuen Hung & Co. (TYH & Co.), which he set up in 2017. The firm operates from offices in Cheras and Klang in Selangor, and Johor Bahru, and acts for clients across Malaysia and overseas. He read law at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, with academic emphasis on family law, and holds the Certificate in Legal Practice from the Legal Profession Qualifying Board Malaysia. He trained at Messrs Shearn Delamore & Co. before practising at Messrs Mark Law Chambers in Kuala Lumpur. Since founding TYH & Co. he has practised in non-Muslim divorce and family law exclusively, and the firm has handled more than 2,000 divorce matters. He works in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Cantonese, and favours settlement over litigation where the parties allow it.
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Tam Yuen Hung & Co. (TYH & Co.) is a Malaysian law firm founded in 2017, with offices in Cheras and Klang in Selangor, and Johor Bahru. It focuses on non-Muslim divorce and family law and has handled more than 2,000 divorce matters. The firm is registered with the Malaysian Bar under registration number 000020005128 and regulated under the Legal Profession Act 1976. More at tyhlegal.my.
How to credit him
First mention: Max Tam Yuen Hung, founder of Tam Yuen Hung & Co.
Later mentions: Tam or Max Tam.
Firm name in full on first use, then TYH & Co.
Previous features and recognition
- World Bank Group Contributor, Women, Business and the Law 2026 report
- RinggitPlus When personal scandals impact your finances: lessons for wealth protection in Malaysia
- The Malaysian Insight Featured commentary on divorce and family law
Story ideas we can help with
Recurring questions from the public that rarely get a clear answer in Malaysian media. He can provide plain-language explanation, patterns from practice, and anonymised examples.
- Why a joint petition and a contested divorce lead to very different costs and timelines, and how couples end up in the expensive one by accident.
- How custody is actually decided in Malaysia, and why the assumption that the mother always gets the child is not the rule people think it is.
- What happens to maintenance when the paying parent loses income, remarries, or simply stops.
- How matrimonial assets are divided when one spouse earned and the other ran the household.
- Divorcing when one spouse has moved overseas, or when the marriage was registered abroad.
- The two-year rule, and what actually counts as exceptional hardship for an early divorce.
This page is for media and editorial enquiries. If you have a legal matter of your own, contact TYH & Co. through the enquiry channels on tyhlegal.my. Nothing on this page is legal advice.