中國의 家族關係保護를 위한 婚姻法制에 대한 檢討

Family relations is the basic unit composing social relations. Therefore to understand social changes we need to study family relations, and we have to inquire into the changes of family relations and legal system owing to the significance of ‘Family’ itself. If we pay due regard to such factors that there is the functional relations between family and society in social development, it is essential to have the legal system for family protection. In this essay with critical mind as above, I aim to understand the system of family protection in China. The principal laws concerning family protection system is marriage law, inheritance law and general provisions of civil law. For this study I exmime these laws and additionally constitutional law, criminal law, population and family planning law, child welfare law, women rights safeguard law, old-age rights safeguard law etc. Especially in this article I pay special attention to custody and aliment. In conclusion through the theory and practice of these laws, I make an attempt to understand the method of marriage and family relations protection in Chinese society.