Does the Civil Affairs Bureau handle divorce during the Spring Festival?

You can't go through divorce procedures during the Chinese New Year. The Civil Affairs Bureau belongs to the government, and normal working days need to be implemented in accordance with national holiday standards. At the end of the year, the Civil Affairs Bureau can handle divorce on working days, but not on rest days and legal holidays. State organs and institutions implement unified working hours, and Saturdays and Sundays are weekly rest days. Enterprises and institutions that cannot implement the unified working hours stipulated in the preceding paragraph may flexibly arrange weekly rest days according to actual conditions. Both parties applying for divorce must be legal marriage parties who have registered marriage. If both parties live together illegally, both parties to the de facto marriage unconditionally apply for divorce registration. Therefore, any registered divorce applicant without a marriage certificate or proof of marriage relationship will not be accepted by the marriage registration authority. Both parties applying for divorce should be persons with full capacity for civil conduct.

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People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 1079 If one of the spouses requests a divorce, the relevant organization may mediate or directly file a divorce lawsuit with the people's court.

When trying divorce cases, the people's court shall conduct mediation; If the relationship has indeed broken down and mediation is ineffective, divorce should be granted. In any of the following circumstances, if mediation fails, divorce shall be granted:

(a) bigamy or cohabitation with others;

(2) committing domestic violence or abusing or abandoning family members;

(three) gambling, drug abuse and other bad habits;

(four) separated for two years due to emotional discord;

(5) Other circumstances that lead to the breakdown of the marriage relationship.

If one party is declared missing and the other party files a divorce lawsuit, the divorce shall be granted.

After the people's court ruled that divorce is not allowed, if the two parties have separated for one year and one party files a divorce lawsuit again, divorce shall be granted.