Section 1515 — Registration of a consensual divorce
Statutory text (Thai original)
เมื่อได้จดทะเบียนสมรสตามประมวลกฎหมายนี้ การหย่าโดยความยินยอมจะสมบูรณ์ต่อเมื่อคู่สมรสได้จดทะเบียนการหย่านั้นแล้ว
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Where a marriage has been registered under this Code, a divorce by mutual consent is complete only when the spouses have registered the divorce.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 1515 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 10 Supreme Court decisions (1945 to 2013)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6553/2537 (1994)
- Decision 1820/2537 (1994)
- Decision 595/2534 (1991)
- Decision 5887/2533 (1990)
- Decision 269/2531 (1988)
- Decision 6337/2556 (2013)
- Decision 600/2488 (1945)
- Decision 6080/2540 (1997)
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