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TIL: In Japan, if your spouse dies you can divorce your in-laws

Posthumous divorce’s technical but less popular name is a “notification of marital relationship termination” (inzoku kankei shuryo todoke) which means one is officially severing ties with the family of a deceased spouse. What’s particularly strange about it is that it doesn’t really serve any purpose for a vast majority of people aside from a government-approved official statement that someone finds their in-laws unbearable.

norimee ,

Do you have any legal responsibilities towards your in-laws in either direction in Japan?
And can your in-laws also divorce you, when your partner- their child dies?

PeepinGoodArgs ,

What’s particularly strange about it is that it doesn’t really serve any purpose for a vast majority of people aside from a government-approved official statement that someone finds their in-laws unbearable.

That’s a pretty good purpose. Everybody can save face by taking part in bureaucracy. That sounds like I’m being facetious, but I’m serious. Think about the alternative: avoiding them awkwardly all the time or telling them to screw themselves directly, which will engender negative feelings. At least with the bureaucracy, the sentiment gets filtered through a impartial, uncaring medium.

Please_Do_Not ,

To me it feels more like someone has gone out of their way wayyyy further to involve bureaucracy and make it official when just saying “I would rather not” would do.

ThunderWhiskers ,
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Yeah this just feels like government approved passive aggression.

SpaceNoodle ,

Sounds like Japan

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Exactly

GBU_28 ,

Filling out a form to stop talking to someone seems way more of “engendering negative feelings”.

Konrad Hermes energy

SidewaysHighways ,

“oh no, not the crack slam!!”

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