民法親屬編施行法

For family-related matters, events that happened before the Civil Code’s family chapter took effect do not use that chapter’s rules, unless this implementing law specifically says otherwise; the same applies to events that happened before the amendment and the post-amendment rules.

This provision applies the Family Code’s rules for nonmarital children to certain nonmarital children born before the relevant enactment or amendment dates.

Adoption relationships that began before the Family Book took effect are treated, from the enforcement date, as having the effect set out in the Family Book.

For facts that occurred before the family section of the Civil Code took effect, if they are grounds for terminating an adoption relationship under that section, a person may request a declaration terminating the adoption relationship. For facts that occurred after that section took effect but before amendment, if they are grounds under amended Article 1080(5), a person may apply for permission to terminate the adoption relationship.

父母子女間的權利義務，自民法親屬編施行日起依民法親屬編規定；如有修正，適用修正後規定。

For guardians set up before the Family Code took effect, their rights and duties are governed by the Family Code from the effective date; if there has been an amendment, the amended rules apply.

修正前已依民法第1094條任監護人的人，修正公布後仍適用修正後同條第2至第4項。

修正前設置的監護人，在修正施行後適用修正後的規定。

The listed Family Code Chapter 4 provisions take effect 1 year and 6 months after promulgation.

This provision sets when the act and related amendment provisions take effect.

符合條件的人，可在施行日起一年內行使請求權；但若在時效完成後到施行時已超過法定時效期間的一半，則不適用。

The preceding article applies to non-prescriptive statutory periods before or after the Civil Code Family Book is amended. If the period is under one year and has not yet expired when the law starts or is amended, the period is counted from that date.

This provision says certain engagement rules also apply to engagements made before the family-law part took effect or was amended, with an explicit exception for Article 973.

Amended Civil Code Article 982 takes effect one year after promulgation, and the amended Article 988 still applies to people who committed bigamy before the Civil Code was amended.

這條規定修正後的民法相關條文自一百十二年一月一日施行；在修正施行前結婚、且施行後未滿十八歲者，滿十八歲前仍適用修正施行前的規定。

This provision says the remarriage period is counted from the time the marriage ended.

For marriages entered into before the family law chapter took effect, the spouses may use the rules in Article 1004 and may choose the statutory property regime as their agreed property regime. The amended Article 1010 also applies to marriages entered into after the chapter took effect but before the amendment.

This transitional rule says certain spouses married before June 4, 1985, under the joint property regime, will be subject to the amended Civil Code Article 1017 one year after the 1996 amendment takes effect, if the real property was acquired in the wife's name before that date and remains registered in her name, including after divorce.

This provision reclassifies certain spouses’ property after the amendment takes effect.

Pending cases described here are governed by the amended rules.

Facts that happened before the family chapter took effect may be used as grounds for divorce, unless the time limit in Articles 1053 or 1054 has already passed.

This provision makes certain family-law rules apply retroactively to children conceived or born before the amendment, and allows some children to apply within one year to change their surname to the mother’s surname.

符合特定舊法期間已過而不能提起否認之訴的夫妻，得在修正施行後二年內提起。

Children adopted before the Family Code provision took effect are treated the same as children born in wedlock in relation to their adoptive parents.