The amended family provisions are more equal. There is now much greater flexibility for judges in granting divorces; any property acquired by a woman before marriage remains hers without the need for further proof that its ownership status has not changed; and the tradition of nearly always awarding custody of children to the father has been shattered, with the best interests of the child now the standard for deciding custody.
修正後的民法親屬編朝兩性平權邁進，大幅放寬了判決離婚的彈性，妻子在婚前取得的財產，不必經過舉證即屬妻子所有。子女監護權之歸屬，則打破過去多判給父親的慣例，改依子女的最佳利益為判定標準。