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The three Maritime provinces relied on their own pre-Confederation divorce laws which continued in force after 1867. In the four western provinces, the English Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 applied, through the doctrine of reception of English statute law. [103] Under that act, a husband could get a divorce on the grounds of his wife's adultery.
These changes regarding divorce and land ownership led more women to seek divorce. As a result, the marriage law became known as the "divorce law." since divorce emerged as the most contentious and alarming aspect of the newly introduced laws. Statistics show an exponential increase in divorce cases after the Marriage Law came into effect.
A Chinese divorce court has ordered a husband to pay his wife for the housework she carried out during their five-year marriage in the first ruling of its kind following the introduction of a new ...
A law formulated in accordance with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China for the purposes of protecting the lawful rights and interests of the persons of the civil law, regulating civil-law relations, maintaining social and economic order, meeting the needs for developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and carrying ...
In fact, Chinese couples are able to get a "quickie" divorce by simply presenting themselves, together, at the marriage and divorce registration center and paying a fee of only $1.50.
Traditional Chinese marriage (Chinese: 婚姻; pinyin: hūnyīn) is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involves not only a union between spouses but also a union between the two families of a man and a woman, sometimes established by pre-arrangement between families. Marriage and family are inextricably linked, which involves the ...
Asian Markets rose Thursday. In Japan the Nikkei 225 Index advanced 2.2% to close at 10,621. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index added 1% to finish at 20,422 and China's Shanghai Composite Index gained 2. ...
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