Section 1598/39
Statutory text (Thai original)
เมื่อผู้มีส่วนได้เสียแสดงว่าพฤติการณ์รายได้ หรือฐานะของคู่กรณีได้เปลี่ยนแปลงไป ศาลจะสั่งแก้ไขในเรื่องค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดูโดยให้เพิกถอน ลด เพิ่ม หรือกลับให้ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดูอีกก็ได้ในกรณีที่ศาลไม่พิพากษาให้ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู เพราะเหตุแต่เพียงอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งไม่อยู่ในฐานะที่จะให้ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดูได้ในขณะนั้น หากพฤติการณ์ รายได้ หรือฐานะของอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งนั้นได้เปลี่ยนแปลงไป และพฤติการณ์รายได้หรือฐานะของผู้เรียกร้องอยู่ในสภาพที่ควรได้รับค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู ผู้เรียกร้องอาจร้องขอให้ศาลเปลี่ยนแปลงคำสั่งในคดีนั้นใหม่ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
When any interested person can show that there has been a change in circumstances or in the means or condition in life of the parties, the Court may make alteration of the maintenance by cancelling, reducing, increasing or re-establishing the amount of maintenance. In case the Court gives an order not granting the maintenance only on account of one party not being in the position to furnish the maintenance at the moment, the Court may be requested to alter its order given in that case if the circumstances, means or conditions on life of the other have changed and the claimant, after having taken account of the circumstances, his means and condition in life, should be furnished with the maintenance.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1598/39 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 11 Supreme Court decisions (1991 to 2017)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 15200/2557 (2014)
- Decision 11462/2555 (2012)
- Decision 4681/2552 (2009)
- Decision 7108/2551 (2008) Post-Divorce Spousal Maintenance Continuation
- Decision 6949/2550 (2007)
- Decision 1605/2534 (1991)
- Decision 9653/2557 (2014)
- Decision 7345/2560 (2017)
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