Hello, For the last month I have been struggling through law books and web sites in Japanese to see what the story is about settlement payment in a divorce. As you know in the west the husband and wife split the savings and fix assets 50%/50%. But my Japanese wife and her parents say that this is not the case in Japan. I have read on other websites that the men commonly hand over between 2 - 3 million yen. This is fine with me as it is about half of our savings that we accumulated over the years we were living togther. But what I don't like is that the wife doesn't hand over half her earnings that she earned during the marriage from her job. My wife and parents are saying thay if you don't pay all of this amount (3 million yen) then they want money back from the wedding that they paid mostly for and the expenses for the time I was staying there before I we got married. But I don't think this is legally possible.
if she doesn't half things fairly I don't feel obliged to pay child support.
Can anyone shine some light on this topic?
Thanks in advance |
