Debt division after divorce under study

China's top court is studying how to fix a judicial interpretation of the Marriage Law that forces divorced couples to jointly pay off debts incurred during the marriage.

Many people have been forced to pay off spousal debt that was borrowed without their knowledge or consent.

"Forty-five deputies to the National People's Congress advised us in March to review Article 24 in the court's interpretation of the Marriage Law over its irrationality," Liang Ying, director of the research office of the NPC Standing Committee's Legal Affairs Commission, said on Monday. "About 1,000 letters from the public have complained about it since last year."