Japan enforces law tackling outdated rules on paternity after divorce

A revised Japanese law to address what are deemed as outdated rules on paternity took effect Monday, taking a more flexible approach to designating the legal father of a child born after a divorce and removing a 100-day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.The revamped Civil Code maintains that if a child is born within 300 days of its mother's divorce, the previous husband will be the child's presumed father. But under the new provision, if a child is born at the point when the mother is remarried, the new husband will assume the legal paternity as an exception to the 300-day rule.The first such chang…READ FULL ARTICLE