Courts get property disputes guidance

BEIJING - A house bought by parents and registered under their child's name remains the personal property of the child even after the child gets married, according to a judicial explanation issued by China's Supreme People's Court (SPC).

The judicial explanation is expected to cover the settlement of disputes concerning real estate in the country's increasing number of divorce cases and means the spouse will not become co-owner of the house.

"Parents who buy their children houses used to worry that if their children divorced it could result in the loss of family property," said SPC spokesman Sun Jungong.