The draft maintains the existing minimum 30-day “cooling-off” period before a couple can divorce, a controversial requirement first introduced via China’s 2020 Civil Code, but now makes it easier for one partner to unilaterally halt divorce proceedings during that period.
søndag 25. august 2024
“THEY’LL STOOP TO ANYTHING TO REDUCE THE DIVORCE RATE”
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler to register marriages and potentially more difficult to divorce. The proposed changes, billed as helping to create a “family friendly society,” are generally viewed as an attempt to address a looming demographic crisis partly fueled by the nation’s plummeting birth rate. The draft law, which is open for public comment until September 11, has attracted intense public interest and a flood of online commentary, much of it anxious or skeptical.
The draft maintains the existing minimum 30-day “cooling-off” period before a couple can divorce, a controversial requirement first introduced via China’s 2020 Civil Code, but now makes it easier for one partner to unilaterally halt divorce proceedings during that period.
The draft maintains the existing minimum 30-day “cooling-off” period before a couple can divorce, a controversial requirement first introduced via China’s 2020 Civil Code, but now makes it easier for one partner to unilaterally halt divorce proceedings during that period.
