Chinese Civil Code

You Bought the House After Marriage — But It's Still Not 50/50. Here's Why.

Ask anyone on the street in China: "If I buy a house after I get married, does my spouse automatically get half in a divorce?" Most will say yes. Most are wrong. The Myth of the 50/50 Marital Home Under Article 1,062 of China's

Chinese Civil Code

Your Family's Demolition Compensation Got You Two Apartments. Your Ex-Spouse Claims One.

In the Yangtze River Delta, demolition and resettlement (拆迁) has created more overnight millionaires than any other economic phenomenon. Families whose ancestral homes sat on suddenly valuable land receive compensation apartments — sometimes two, sometimes three. The children, only children under China's former one-child policy, are the natural

Chinese Civil Code

Adding Your Spouse's Name to Your Pre-Marital Home in China: The Rules Just Changed

The 2025 SPC interpretation rewrote the playbook. If you last checked the law in 2024, you are working with outdated information. When Liu bought his Beijing apartment in 2019, he was single and the sole owner on the title deed. Three years later, he married. At his wife's