Section 1477 — Suing to protect the marital property
Statutory text (Thai original)
คู่สมรสฝ่ายใดฝ่ายหนึ่งมีสิทธิฟ้อง ต่อสู้ หรือดำเนินคดีเกี่ยวกับการสงวนบำรุงรักษาสินสมรส หรือเพื่อประโยชน์แก่สินสมรส หนี้อันเกิดแต่การฟ้อง ต่อสู้ หรือดำเนินคดีดังกล่าว ให้ถือว่าเป็นหนี้ที่คู่สมรสเป็นลูกหนี้ร่วมกัน
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Either spouse has the right to sue, to defend, or to conduct proceedings concerning the preservation and maintenance of the marital property, or for the benefit of the marital property. A debt arising from such a suit, defence or proceedings is deemed to be a debt for which the spouses are jointly liable.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 1477 is part of Book 5 (Family) of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code. This entry is awaiting firm-authored commentary; the statutory text above is verbatim from the Office of the Council of State (OCS Krisdika) Thai source, with the English translation from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 36 Supreme Court decisions (1950 to 2021)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3193/2564 (2021)
- Decision 4003/2552 (2009)
- Decision 812/2547 (2004)
- Decision 6695/2540 (1997)
- Decision 3181/2540 (1997)
- Decision 980/2538 (1995)
- Decision 3247/2537 (1994)
- Decision 2356/2537 (1994)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 1476 22
- Section 1480 9
- Section 1473 6
- Section 7 4
- Thai CPC s. 56 4
- Section 1479 4
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,652 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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