The"relatives"part of the Civil Law of the Republic of China came into effect on May 5,1931.It made detailed and special provisions on individual divorce property rights.Compared with the traditional era,women obtained basical-ly the same divorce property rights as men,re-flecting the legal progress of China during the Re-public of China.However,the divorce mediation cases in Peiping in the 1940s also showed that the actual degree of protection of women's di-vorce property rights and interests after the im-plementation of the civil law was still very low,and the change was not obvious compared with the traditional era.This is mainly due to the fol-lowing reasons.First,there was still direct dis-crimination against women's divorce property rights in the legal provisions;Second,there was indirect discrimination against women's divorce property rights in judicial practice;Third,women rarely resisted legal discrimination.
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