Clothes are hanging on clotheslines when a woman passes residential buildings in Wuhan, China on June 14, 2017.
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BEIJING – A Chinese court ruled in a divorce case that a wife should receive about 50,000 yuan ($ 7,700) from her husband as compensation for five years of domestic work.
The decision sparked an online debate this week over whether it was a fair price.
That’s about $ 128 a month, or just over $ 1,500 a year. In terms of Chinese currency, the payment is about 10,000 yuan a year.
China said its poorest countries earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person per year in 2019. That number is higher than 3,416 yuan in 2015.
In this case, created in the southwestern Beijing Fangshan district, his wife’s domestic work was counted as intangible property value, Judge Feng Miao told state media, according to a report on Monday.
It was not clear when the court’s decision was rendered. But it was the first such decision that referred to new provisions of China’s civil code that went into effect in January.