Application of the Cooling-off Period for Divorce and Property Relations

The setting of the divorce cooling-off period integrates the ideological prerequisite of increasing the autonomy of marriage, the social background of the rising divorce rate, the legislative purpose of preventing reckless divorce, and the provision of institutional support for the judicial practice.The divorce cooling-off period is currently applicable to registered divorce, and adopts a mandatory principle, that is, all parties applying for divorce through registration should apply this system.At the moment, we should explore the flexible application of the divorce cooling-off period system and the issue of changes in the property relation between husband and wife during the cooling-off period.