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How long is the waiting period between a divorce and new marriage?

Does anyone know the answer? My fiancee just comes out of a previous marriage. We are planning to marry but now someone told us we cannot marry within a period of 1 year after her divorce? The court issued the formal divorce decree about 3 months ago.
Category: Family law, Inheritance
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Asked 12 years ago
Ray Charles
bangkoklawonline

Answers (3)

Actually 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.
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 12 years ago
Nadia

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.
Answered 12 years ago
Consultant
I am westerner married to a Thai and the legitimate father of two children. And about to be Divorced.. What Visa can I apply for under these circumstances.
Answered 8 years ago
Rod Turner
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