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Politics March 14, 2024 8:39 p.m. (JST)
TOKYO, March 14 (Jiji Press) – The Diet, Japan's parliament, began deliberating on Thursday a bill aimed at introducing a system in the country that would allow divorced parents to share custody of their children .
The draft law recasting the Civil Code specifically aims to give divorced parents, after discussions, the opportunity to choose joint or sole custody, as one of these parents currently has custody.
If the bill is passed during the current state parliament session, the shared custody system is expected to be introduced by 2026.
“It is important that parents are appropriately involved in the upbringing of their children in order to fulfill their responsibilities even after the divorce,” Justice Minister Ryuji Koizumi said at a plenary session of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the state legislature.
If the parents cannot agree on custody after the separation, a family court will decide to give custody to both or one of them.
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