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The Division of Property through Analyzing Lower Court Cases

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2009, (43), pp.297-328
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Lee Hye Jin 1

1동아대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

It has been 18 years since the revised Civil Law containing the Division of Property System came into effect. As living in the course of marriage means to live together, it is not a significant problem who has the title of assets. But with the divorce it need to divide assets acquired during their marriage in proportion to contribution. So a party of a married couple can claim for division of property against another party. We call it the Division of Property System(hereinafter “the System”). The System has contributed to protect a spouse(especially wife) who did not have an economic ability, and to realize an equity through substantial adjustment when they got a divorce. But due to indefiniteness of the clauses concerned, there revealed many problems to interpret and apply the System in spite of its importance in domestic cases. In fact, considerable disparity about objects, process and ratio of division occurs by lower court judge's discretion. Therefore, a prediction, a balance of the application of laws are disturbed, which causes distrust of courts. So this article tries to analyze concretely the Object and Ratio of Division in real cases(in particular lower court cases) to which the litigants pay all attention, without treating theoretical problems such as legal characteristics and requisites of the Claim for Division of Property.

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