{"id":5403,"date":"2026-08-31T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/thai-legal-news\/bought-together-before-the-wedding-owned-together-after-it-dika-97-2569-on-unmarried-couples-and-land\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:46:04","slug":"bought-together-before-the-wedding-owned-together-after-it-dika-97-2569-on-unmarried-couples-and-land","status":"publish","type":"tlo_legal_news","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/thai-legal-news\/bought-together-before-the-wedding-owned-together-after-it-dika-97-2569-on-unmarried-couples-and-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought together before the wedding, owned together after it: Dika 97\/2569 on unmarried couples and land"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple lived together from 1983, ran a joint money-lending business, married only in 1997 and divorced in 2001. Two plots of land bought through the business sat in the man’s sole name, and both lower courts called them his separate property because they pre-dated the marriage. In Dika 97\/2569<\/b> the Supreme Court reversed: land acquired through the couple’s joint effort during cohabitation is co-owned half each<\/b> under the co-ownership rules (CCC ss.1356–1363<\/b>), the later marriage does not change that, and the man must register her as co-owner<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Thai law has no common-law marriage (s.1457<\/b>), so an unmarried partner gets no sans sommeil<\/i> presumption and must prove joint acquisition — here, years of business records did it. For foreigners the extra catch is the Land Code: a foreign partner’s remedy over land is money or a registered usufruct, not a name on the deed.<\/p>\n

\u21aa Unmarried couples and property in Thailand: the full Dika 97\/2569 analysis<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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