[/floatr]Asahi: LDP moves to shorten period when women can remarry
A legal stipulation that prevents women from remarrying within six months of divorce will be shortened to 100 days under a proposal unveiled Tuesday by a ruling party group. The ban, which comes under Article 733 of the Civil Law, was created to help define the biological father of a child born after a divorce who remarries. However, Article 772 of the Civil Law states that a child born within 300 days of divorce is "presumed" to be the ex-husband's offspring, even if there is no biological connection. It also says that a child born on the 200th day of marriage or thereafter is presumed to be the current husband's offspring. To prevent those periods from overlapping, the group of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers said the six-month ban on women remarrying should be reduced to 100 days, officials said...The project team was set up in response to a growing number of divorced women, who, with their new spouses, have been pressing the government to be more realistic about registering children under the names of their real parents...Moves to review the six-month period have been put off for the past 10 years. The ban has frequently been criticized because only women are singled out...more...
