A revised Japanese law to address what are deemed as outdated rules on paternity goes into effect, taking a more flexible approach to designating the legal father of a child born after a divorce and removing a 100-day remarriage ban for women.
Japan's parliament enacts legal changes that would allow the new husband of a remarried woman to assume paternity of children born within 300 days of divorce from her previous partner.
Japan s Cabinet has approved draft legislation to scrap a rule that has prevented the new husband of a woman who has remarried from assuming paternity over a child born within some 10 months of the woman s divorce from her previous partner.