Dagmar Yu observes that from the time when the family law section was enacted in l931, it was not amended for the first time until 1985, and then only to add the rider "except as otherwise agreed by the parties concerned" to articles regarded as controversial in terms of gender equality, such as the requirements that women must take the same family name and residence as their husbands.
尤美女指出，從民國二十年製定，直到民國七十四年，民法親屬編才有第一次的修改﹘﹘在男女平權爭議的法條，如從夫姓、從夫居，只加上但書：「但有約定者從其約定」。