Introduction: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Family Law

1.
Love and Law: The Road to Marriage
The True Ending of a Happy Ending No One Knows | The Language of Law, 'The Words That Are Expressed' | Family Law Specially Treats the Language of Love | The Law Intervenes When Engagement Arrives | The Triangle of Love, Breakups, and Compensation | The Traces of Him/Her Remain

2.
Marriage is a contract: Married, bear its weight.
Holding hands and heading into the unknown | Eating from the same pot, sharing a blanket | 'Sea World' doesn't exist | Spending money in separate pockets is legal for couples | Husband's proxy, wife's proxy

3.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Even Marriage Can Be Cancelled
Mongryong, the loyal man who kept his promise to his lover | Freedom and equality begin with the family | Were sixteen-year-old Chunhyang and Mongryong a married couple? | A love that cannot be protected by law | Both love and marriage can be cancelled.

4.
Even water freezes when it breaks: The various procedures of a hot and cold divorce.
All marriages end someday | See you in four weeks | Divorce by agreement: Free will or legal? | Shylock's contract was wrong | Relationships that violate public morals are invalid under the law!

5.
A perfect separation requires legal permission: divorce through a trial.
A trial is the right of every citizen | Six grounds for divorce in court | Other circumstances | Can a person who farts get angry? | If we can't be together anyway

6.
If he/she smells strange: an act of infidelity called adultery
Why are sad premonitions never wrong? | How much pain must one have to endure before a legal breakup? | Don't sleep on your rights | Even good things are within the principles of the law | Is it okay if an affair goes undetected?

7.
Where Love Leaves, Money Remains: The Effects of Divorce
How much is enough? How much is enough? | Can money heal a broken heart? | The value of support | What can and should be shared | Alimony and property division are different.

8.
A Chain Unbreakable Even by Heaven: Parent-Child Relationships in Law
Parents' duties are only a right in name | Mom will take good care of you | Parents' pain ends with you | Parents who say "I don't care" when faced with money

9.
To Call Your Father "Father": Several Lawsuits on Parent-Child Relationships
Our toes look alike | We traveled 30,000 miles to find our father? | I grant you the grace to be kind and generous | How far does the power of genes extend?

10.
What is the relationship between cousins?: The question of kinship and support.
The Scope of the Family Has Changed | The Scope and Hierarchy of Relatives | The Weight of the Name "Relative" | This Matter Is Between Relatives, So the Law Will Not Intervene

11.
What can a person leave behind when he dies?: The Effects of Inheritance
What is a "person" in the law? | Property left for those left behind | Order of inheritance? | Various disputes surrounding inheritance

12.
A fight overturning the ancestral rites table: the fair division of inheritance
Inheritance is shared, inherited together | There are fingers that don't hurt even after biting all ten | How to give more to children who have contributed | So that even after death, your back will be beautiful

13.
The Last Words You Leave Behind: The Principle of Legality of Wills
There are many things you want to say | Five ways provided by law | Things you can leave in a will | To ensure that the deceased's wishes are carried out

14.
How to Go Against the Will of the Deceased: Claiming the Return of a Reserved Portion
Legacies and Debts: Accepting and Renunciating Inheritance | Should You Accept or Reject? | Receive at least half | Heirs: The Ultimate Right to a Reserved Portion

15.
Modern Family: Changing Family Structures and Legal Issues
Diversifying Family Structures and Property Issues | The Imbalance of Spousal Inheritance | What Does the Word "Couple" Mean? | Is Marriage the Only Form of Family? | The Natural Families That Humans Create

Appendix: Attorney Yang Ji-yeol's Full-Fledged Family Law Consultation Center
1.
Broken Engagement / Questions from a Bride-to-Be in Her 20s
2.
Divorce - Personality Differences / Questions from a Husband in His 30s
3.
Divorce - Financial Issues / Questions from a Wife in Her 30s
4.
Inheritance / Questions from a Father in His 70s
5.
Inheritance / Questions from a Daughter-in-Law in Her 50s

1.
Attorney, what family law do I need to know about getting married?
- A guide to a safe married life for couples about to get married

The couple, who are the beginning of a family, were strangers from the beginning.
Starting a business with others and forming a family community have similar legal structures.
When starting a business, it is common to conduct thorough market research on the industry, gain experience for a certain period of time, and, if there is a partner, carefully consider what each party wants and how to finance the business before approaching them.
No matter how much you prepare, unexpected variables arise when you actually jump into business.
What more can we say about marriage, one of the most important choices in life?
However, most people start by overlooking the awkward parts, thinking that they can just do what they experienced at home and that good things are good.


Because it is a close relationship, it may be considered cold to look at it through the lens of the law.
But that's never the case.
There are so many times when husbands and wives clash because they vaguely state their own positions on how to deal with their respective parents.
The law is a promise that all people living in the same era agree to keep.
If you are a couple about to get married, I recommend reading this book together.
Before launching into a long-winded discussion about the vaguely defined duties of husband and wife, it's best to start by understanding the legal obligations.
If everyone's role is clear, conflict will actually be reduced.

“Marriage is a long-term contract between two different individuals to create a single community called a family.
It promises a rosy future, but no one knows what awaits them.
Just having two people who have lived in separate homes in the same space is already dangerous.
The minimum guidelines for avoiding collisions and injuries or causing harm to others are the laws governing marriage.
So, shouldn't we start by knowing something to some extent?
Moreover, since there is already a law, following it is a legal 'obligation'.
“You can’t be forgiven for not knowing.”
-From “Marriage is a Contract”

2.
Family law for those who are frustrated at every turning point in life, from dating to inheritance.
- The harsh world, the long life, the minimum legal common sense to protect you.

A good, innocent, and honest person is called a 'person who can live without the law.'
This statement is wrong.
There are people who live without knowing the law, but there is no one who lives without the law.
Only after I am born and register my birth can my existence be recognized by the nation.
As people fall in love, get married, have children, divorce due to various family disputes or fight over property, and even leave behind a will and inheritance upon death, the law lives with people throughout their lives.
Even if you're not married or have a lot of wealth like a CEO, we live in a world where family disputes, big or small, are on the rise, and sadly, it's very difficult to resolve family disputes 'humanely' and 'harmoniously'.
In fact, it may be the 'good people who can live without the law' who need the law the most.
To avoid being hit in the back of the head in a conflict situation that anyone may face at some point, it is necessary to know the general flow of family law.


I'm not saying you should fight by pushing the law.
Each family's unique culture must also be respected.
However, if you understand the broad framework established by law, applying it within that framework will become much easier.
Even if there are things you have to do reluctantly, the frustration that comes from not even knowing whether it is right or wrong can be greatly reduced.


“If you were to pick out a particularly difficult case among the various cases handled by lawyers, it would undoubtedly be disputes surrounding inheritance.
Most civil lawsuits are about money.
But it's not a good look when siblings, and sometimes even one of the parents, are involved in a fight over money.
Because they are close, it is easy for an emotional response to occur.
Even in court, shouting is common.
Somehow, the judge's gaze doesn't seem kind.
Sometimes it feels like I'm instigating a family fight.


The law stipulates that when there are multiple heirs, the inheritance is shared.
Therefore, each heir has a share of the inheritance in proportion to his or her share of the individual items or rights that are the inheritance.
It is not uncommon for there to be bloody fights over that stake.
It's easy to get a headache when you consider the special income and contribution systems that were designed to reflect each family's unique reality, not just mechanical distribution.
“Why are you doing this to your family?” I found myself saying.
-From “The Fight Overturning the Ancestral Table”

3.
In a changing world, how should the "modern family" be protected by the law?
- The law should be a 'strong fence' for more people.

The shape of the family is changing today.
The speed will only get faster in the future.
People who choose not to get married, couples who choose to cohabit, couples who seek same-sex marriage… However, in the case of sexual minorities or unmarried couples, if a partner needs urgent surgery at a hospital, they have no legal right to sign a consent form.
There are countless instances of things that go beyond simple inconvenience and can even be seen as discrimination.
Even when applying for an apartment, which is as difficult as winning the lottery, or even when buying a car, married couples are given more benefits.
Beyond the issues facing sexual minorities, how can cohabiting couples raise children if they want to? Currently, there's virtually no legal protection for such children.


Since the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution operates in both directions, including the right to do something and the right not to do something, the reason of being 'not married' cannot be a justification for discrimination.
Since we cannot confine people within the framework of family laws created decades ago by the older generation three generations ago, the law must follow the flow of the world.
We must become a strong fence so that more people can live happily.


Let's meet attorney Yang Ji-yeol, who provides thorough and friendly legal advice through various media to help more people utilize the law easily and correctly.
Rather than listing individual cases, this book is organized by topic, allowing readers to read the theory along with the overall flow, and provides various real-world examples and solutions to enhance understanding.
In particular, by presenting representative cases through the appendix, ‘Yang Ji-yeol’s Authentic Family Law Counseling Center,’ it has helped people who are frustrated and frustrated by the law to get a feel for the law.

Readers' expectations for this book

I think families have been pressured to be harmonious.
I want to know how to deal with this wisely.
-'absunright'

In this day and age, getting married, having children, and living together, I've started to think again about family.
I think this will be a book that will put a lot of exclamation points and periods in the process!
-'insonc'

I found it absurd to see parents who abandoned their children suddenly appear after their children's deaths and receive compensation.
There are also people who suddenly take on the debts of relatives they barely know because their immediate family refuses to inherit their inheritance.
I hope you learn how to live without loss by properly understanding family law.
-'Eternal Galaxy'

I'm really drawn to this book because it's by attorney Yang Ji-yeol! The law is a traffic light for life.
I think there are many problems that cannot be overlooked or ignored just because they are family.
I would like to take this opportunity to study law with my family.
-'woziji2019'