Section 1584/1
Statutory text (Thai original)
บิดาหรือมารดาย่อมมีสิทธิที่จะติดต่อกับบุตรของตนได้ตามควรแก่พฤติการณ์ ไม่ว่าบุคคลใดจะเป็นผู้ใช้อำนาจปกครองหรือผู้ปกครองก็ตาม
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A father or a mother is entitled to contact with their child as is reasonable in the circumstances, whoever exercises parental power over the child or is the child's guardian.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 1584/1 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. The English translation is ThaiLawOnline's own, written from the Thai original and verified against it. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 6 Supreme Court decisions (2003 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1218/2567 (2024) Child Support Order Can Be Modified When the Child Permanently Moves to the Other Parent
- Decision 4104/2564 (2021)
- Decision 4231/2558 (2015)
- Decision 9117/2557 (2014)
- Decision 448/2546 (2003)
- Decision 7072/2559 (2016)
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.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,652 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. The count is complete; the stated year range trims rare outliers so it describes where the citations actually sit. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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