Women in Japan period to 100 days and allows any woman who is not pregnant during the divorce to remarry immediately after divorce. The Civil Code of Japan requires legally married spouses to have the same surname. Although the law is gender-neutral, meaning that either spouse is allowed to change his/her name to that of the other spouse, Japanese women have traditionally adopt their husband’s family name and 96% of women continue to do so as of 2015. In 2015, the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law, noting that women could use their maiden names informally, and stating that it
LGBT rights in New South Wales as well as to adopt their partner's children (step-child adoption). Since April 2018, all Australian jurisdictions legally allow same-sex couples to adopt children. All women (regardless if they are single, married or in a relationship with another person) are permitted access to IVF treatment in New South Wales under the "Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2007". Medicare funding, however, requires the couple to be medically infertile, which makes it only available to heterosexual couples because of an assumption that the man is medically infertile. A lesbian couple would likely not have a medical condition that makes the couple infertile. The "Artificial