2024.12.18
Announcement of Law Lecture Series 2024
"Changing Families and Real Estate—Future Prospects in a Depopulating and Aging Society"
As Japanese society undergoes unprecedented depopulation and aging, there is a growing number of land and buildings that owners can no longer manage. Some of these properties have become ownerless, making their management and use difficult. To address and prevent these situations, amendments have been made to the Civil Code and the Real Property Registration Act, and the Act on Vesting of Inherited Land in the National Treasury has been enacted. The application of these laws is now drawing attention. Meanwhile, the transformation of Japanese society has also extended to the regulation of the most fundamental human relationships, such as marriage, divorce, and parent-child relations. This has led to amendments to the Civil Code concerning the review of the presumption of legitimacy system, the abolition of the remarriage prohibition period, the introduction of joint parental authority after divorce, and the securing of child support payments. Through these legal reforms concerning families and real estate, which are most familiar to us, we would like to consider how we can envision the future of Japanese society.