Japan's Diet enacts bill allowing joint custody after divorce | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News (www3.nhk.or.jp)
from 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 08:57
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Japan’s Diet has enacted a bill into law that paves the way for divorced parents to share custody of their children. The current system allows only either of the couple to exercise parental rights.

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IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 10:23 collapse

I got lucky with my wife, but had I known then what I now know of Japanese divorce law, I wouldn’t have rolled those dice. I just hope this means Japan is going to start shared custody when one parent is a foreigner.