Chinanews.com, September 17th, the State Council Information Office today held a press conference on solidly doing a good job of civil affairs in an all-round well-off society.
The Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, Zhan Chengfu, stated at the press conference that from the perspective of the implementation effect of the divorce cooling-off period, many cases of impulsive divorce have indeed been reduced, and the social effect is very good.
According to Zhan Chengfu, in recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has mainly done the following work in terms of promoting marriage and family harmony:
The first is to deepen the reform of marriage customs to reduce the burden on the masses.
In recent years, bad habits in marriage in some places have become a serious burden for the masses and have been criticized by all sectors of society.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has selected a number of experimental areas for reforming marriage customs, advocating the concept of marriage and love of “we are in the same boat through storm and rain, mutual support, responsibility, mutual respect and mutual love”, and promoted the introduction of bad customs such as curbing high-priced gifts, curbing big morals, curbing extravagance and waste. , To guide the masses to consciously reduce the burden of love.
The second is to implement the "Civil Code" divorce cooling-off period system to help marriage parties repair their marriage relationship.
Marriage parties are the main responsibility of the marriage relationship. Civil affairs departments mainly do some promotion work, and through providing psychological counseling and dispute mediation services for the parties, many marriage parties are reconciled as before.
In addition, my country's divorce channels are unimpeded, and there are two paths: one is to go to the court to litigate for divorce; the other is to go to the civil affairs department to handle divorce by agreement.
The divorce cooling-off period set by the "Civil Code" is for divorce by agreement and is not restricted by divorce by litigation. Since it is a divorce by agreement, the parties can calmly think about it for a period of time in order to reduce impulsive divorce.
Judging from the effect of the implementation of the divorce cooling-off period, it has indeed reduced many cases of impulsive divorce, and the social effect is very good.
The third is to carry out a cross-provincial trial of marriage registration to make things easier for the common people.
This pilot project started from June 1 this year in seven provinces and two capital cities across the country. From June 1 to August 31, a total of 9703 pairs of inter-provincial marriage registrations were handled in each pilot area, including marriage registrations. 8,143 pairs and 1,560 pairs of divorce registrations have effectively met the needs of the masses.
"In the future, we will work harder to do better marriage registration services." Zhan Chengfu said.