Japan: Laws that discriminated against divorced women were removed

The Parlament Japanese approved today, in its last session of the year, a reform of the civil code to eliminate laws that strongly discriminate against women after getting divorced

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The reform of these sections, ratified today by the Upper House of the Diet (Parliament), eliminates a rule that prevents Japanese women who get divorced from remarrying before 100 days have elapsed since the separation.

In turn, another section is also eliminated by which the paternity of a baby that a divorced woman gives birth to without 300 days having elapsed since the divorce automatically falls to the ex-husband.

This implies that the children of those divorced women who remarry and were born less than 300 days after the divorce can be registered as children of a new spouse in the event that the woman has a new partner, which in administrative terms greatly facilitates the Minors can access various social benefits under the so-called “family record” in Japan.

The amendment, which will take effect in 18 months, has also eliminated a law – enacted like the other two, more than a century ago – that gave parents the right to apply physical punishment to their children and has produced a new that will punish the parents who commit these abuses.

Source: Elcomercio

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