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Cooling-Off Period On Couples Seeking Divorce in China

by Colleen Fleiss on Aug 14 2018 8:35 AM

Cooling-Off Period On Couples Seeking Divorce in China
In an effort to check the increasing divorce rate in China, courts have began to impose a cooling-off period on couples, seeking to legally separate.
More than a hundred courts in the country have imposed this measure on couples seeking //divorce, which increased by nearly 40 percent in the last decade, as part of a pilot programme launched by the Supreme Court in 2016 to resolve domestic disputes, reports Efe news.

The programme is primarily directed at young couples, who according to the courts are "more susceptible to impulsive breakups".

The measure also comes against the backdrop of an incident in Beijing in 2016, when a judge was shot dead by a man, who was unsatisfied with his divorce ruling.

China legalised divorce since the Communist regime came into power in 1949, although owing to the country's conservative culture, divorce cases were far and few until the 1980s.

According to data from 2016, China recorded around four million divorces annually, 37 per cent more than the 2.9 million in 2011.

Source-IANS


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