Family law in Taiwan has endured great change in the recent ten years. There is a strong need of uncovering and developing new values and new reasoning behind this new law. This paper will explore this from the perspective of legal feminism. This paper argues that feminist legal perspective on family law has sucessfully made law as a tool to challenge sexual inequality in law as well as to raise women's consciousness in society. It suggests a way of seeing law as a struggling site rather than a tool for gender equality in law. This paper also analyses the way that feminism develops new aspects for research in family law. The first aspect develops a new way of studies family law, starting from women's experiences as standpoint and claiming for ‘personal is political'. The second aspect pushes us rethink the relationship between individual, family and state, not only providing legal values but also suggesting lega1 arrangements to regulate women 's gendered lives. The third aspect reflects on the need of expanding legal research on family law by using ideas from social theory and social policy to broaden the understanding of how family law works in modem Taiwan.