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  • Basically there is a waiting period of 300 days in Thailand after the divorce of your fiancee is final or the death of her previous spouse before being allowed to remarry. The reason for this is to avoid children from a previous marriage to be born in the next marriage.

    If you do not want to wait your fiancee must undergo a pregnancy tests by a licensed doctor. He must certify the negative pregnancy result and this must be presented to the official registering the marriage.

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    Answered by Consultant
    10 months ago
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  • image book Civil Code of ThailandActually it is 310 days and it can be found in section 1453 Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand - Chapter II Conditions of Marriage.

    Section 1453:

    In case of the woman whose husband died or whose marriage has become terminated, the marriage can only take place if not less than three hundred and ten days have elapsed since the termination of her previous marriage; unless:

    (1) a child has been born during such period;
    (2) the divorced couple remarry;
    (3) there is a certificate issued by a qualified doctor who is a lawful physical practitioner in medicine showing that the woman is not pregnant;
    (4) there is an order of the Court allowing the woman to marry.

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    Answered by Nadia
    9 months ago
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  • Further in the Civil Code, Title II 'Parent and Child', Chapter I 'Parentage', Section 1536. A child born of a woman during wedlock or within three hundred and ten days after the termination of her marriage is presumed to be the legitimate child of the husband or the man who used to be the husband, as the case may be.

    The provisions of paragraph one shall apply to a child born of a woman before the marriage has been pronounced void by the final judgment of the Court, or within three hundred and ten days as from the date of such final judgment.
    Answered by Nadia
    9 months ago
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