From April 1st of this year, a law amending part of the Civil Code (such as reviewing the legitimateship presumption system) came into effect.

From April 1st of this year, a law amending part of the Civil Code (such as reviewing the legitimateship presumption system) came into effect.
The specific details are as follows

• Even if a child is born within 300 days from the date of dissolution of marriage, the child born after the mother remarried a man other than her ex-husband will be presumed to be the child of the remarriage husband.
  If the mother has not remarried, the child is presumed to be from her ex-husband as usual.
• The prohibition period for women to remarry has been abolished.
  Until March, women could not remarry for 100 days after divorce.
• The right to denying legitimate birth, which had previously been granted only to husbands, was now granted to children and mothers as well.
• The statute of limitations for filing lawsuits denying legitimate birth has been extended from one year to three years.

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