An important controversial point in disputes over rural married-out women's land contractual management rights is the identification standard for "married-out women acquiring contracted land in their new place of residence". Among the three types of such disputes, conflicts arise among various parties due to differences in this identification standard. The reasons for the disputes lie in the traditional concept of "marry and follow the husband", the inconsistent content of village regulations and people's conventions, the failure of land contractual management right certificates to timely reflect changes in the relationship between people and land, and the need to clarify the evidential effect of the registration of land contractual management rights. To resolve these disputes, countermeasures should be taken from four aspects: when settling such disputes, priority should be given to determining whether the married-out woman has acquired contracted land in her new place of residence; "the married-out woman has not acquired contracted land in her new place of residence" should be recognized as an objective fact; the method for "married-out women to acquire contracted land in their new place of residence" must be more explicit; and this matter must be determined based on actual circumstances. Only in this way can the land rights and interests of rural women be better protected and the improvement of the land contracting system be promoted.
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