救助措施与法律责任

　　实施家庭暴力或虐待家庭成员，受害人有权提出请求，居民委员会、村民委员会以及所在单位应当予以劝阻、调解。

　　对正在实施的家庭暴力，受害人有权提出请求，居民委员会、村民委员会应当予以劝阻；公安机关应当予以制止。

　　实施家庭暴力或虐待家庭成员，受害人提出请求的，公安机关应当依照治安管理处罚的法律规定予以行政处罚。

　　对遗弃家庭成员，受害人有权提出请求，居民委员会、村民委员会以及所在单位应当予以劝阻、调解。

　　对遗弃家庭成员，受害人提出请求的，人民法院应当依法作出支付扶养费、抚养费、赡养费的判决。

　　对重婚的，对实施家庭暴力或虐待、遗弃家庭成员构成犯罪的，依法追究刑事责任。受害人可以依照刑事诉讼法的有关规定，向人民法院自诉；公安机关应当依法侦查，人民检察院应当依法提起公诉。

　　有下列情形之一，导致离婚的，无过错方有权请求损害赔偿：

　　（一）重婚的；

　　（二）有配偶者与他人同居的；

　　（三）实施家庭暴力的；

　　（四）虐待、遗弃家庭成员的。

　　离婚时，一方隐藏、转移、变卖、毁损夫妻共同财产，或伪造债务企图侵占另一方财产的，分割夫妻共同财产时，对隐藏、转移、变卖、毁损夫妻共同财产或伪造债务的一方，可以少分或不分。离婚后，另一方发现有上述行为的，可以向人民法院提起诉讼，请求再次分割夫妻共同财产。

　　人民法院对前款规定的妨害民事诉讼的行为，依照民事诉讼法的规定予以制裁。

　　对拒不执行有关扶养费、抚养费、赡养费、财产分割、遗产继承、探望子女等判决或裁定的，由人民法院依法强制执行。有关个人和单位应负协助执行的责任。

　　其他法律对有关婚姻家庭的违法行为和法律责任另有规定的，依照其规定。
　

REMEDIES AND LEGAL LIABILITIES

　　In case of familial violence or maltreatment of any family member, the victim thereof shall be entitled to make petitions, and the villagers’ committees, the relevant urban residents' committee, villagers’ committee or the entity where the victim is a staff member shall make dissuasions or mediations.

　　The victim shall be entitled to make petitions concerning the familial violence that is happening, and the relevant urban residents’ committee or villagers’ committee shall make dissuasions, and the public security organs shall stop such acts.

　　Where the victim of family violence or maltreatment makes a petition, the public security organ concerned shall give administrative punishment to the actor according to the provisions on the administration of public security.

　　Any member deserted by his or her family shall be entitled to make petitions, and the relevant urban residents’ committee, villagers’ committee or the entity where the victim is a staff member shall make dissuasions or mediations.

　　Where any person deserted by his or her family makes a petition, the people’s court shall make a judgment concerning the payment of expenses for upbringing, supporting and maintenance.

　　Criminal liabilities shall be meted out to bigamists and those who has committed familial violence or maltreated or deserted any family member so seriously as to have constituted a crime. The victim may file a private prosecution at the people’s court according to the provisions of the criminal procedure law; the relevant public security organ shall make investigations and the people’s procuratorate concerned shall make a public prosecution according to the provisions of law.

　　In any of the following circumstances which has led to the divorce of husband and wife, the innocent party shall be entitled to claim damages:

　　a. bigamy;

　　b. cohabitation between a person who has a spouse but co-habitats with a third person;

　　c. familial violence;

　　d. maltreating or deserting any family member.

　　If, at the time of divorce, any party conceals, transfers, sells or destroys the property jointly owned by both husband and wife, or fabricates any debt in an effort to seize the property of the other party, the person who conseals, transfers, sells or destroys the jointly owned property or fabricates the debt may, in the partition of jointly owned property, have a smaller or even no share. If any party discovers any of the afore-mentioned acts after divorce, he or she may file a suit at the people’s court to apply for repartitioning the jointly owned property.

　　The people’s court concerned may punish any of the acts that hampers the civil litigation concerning the afore-mentioned acts according to the civil procedure law.

　　In case any person refuses to execute the judgment or decision on the payment of expenses for upbringing, supporting or maintenance, the partitioning or inheritance of property or visiting the children, the execution may be enforced by the people’s court in accordance with the law. Relevant persons and entities shall be responsible for giving assistance to the enforcement.

　　Where there are different provisions in other laws concerning the illegal acts and legal liabilities in the area of marriage or family, such provisions shall be followed.