Amendments to the Family Code, 5 November 1982
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 139 525-6
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289206 Document Number: 383776
In 1982, Mongolia amended its family code to include the addition of eight articles on adoption which cover such topics as spousal consent, the circumstances under which an adoption can be declared void or annulled, and decisions about child custody in such circumstances. Provisions are also made to allow the eviction of parents from housing if they are deprived of their parental rights because they violated the rules of socialist community life. Fathers are allowed to register births if the mother died or disappeared. The amendments also require that forenames (formerly extravagant or unpronounceable) must not only be easily pronounced and written in the native languages (as required previously) but must also be agreed upon by both parents or, in the absence of agreement, conferred by the agency of the Registry of Acts of Civil Status. The father's forename will become the child's surname if the parents have a registered marriage. Otherwise, the child will assume the mother's forename as a surname. The final amendment noted is that arrears of alimony may be recovered for three years in cases where a person has evaded payment.