How is the relationship as husband and wife with a married person handled?
According to lawyer Dang Van Cuong – Hanoi Bar Association: Adultery is a violation of law and morality. In Vietnam, the state only recognizes monogamous marriage as legal. Acts of being married or married, living together or having a relationship with another person as husband and wife are prohibited acts.
Doctor, lawyer Dang Van Cuong – Hanoi Bar Association
According to Clause 2, Article 5 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, the act of “adultery” is one of the prohibited acts:
Article 5. Protection of the marriage and family regime
2. The following acts are prohibited:
c) A married person gets married or lives together as husband and wife with another person, or is unmarried or unmarried but marries or lives as husband and wife with a married person;
Lawyer Cuong said, according to Article 48, Decree 67/2015/ND-CP of the Government, people who are married or are married but live as husband and wife with other people; If you are married or married but marry another person, unmarried or unmarried and marry someone you know is married or are married, you will be fined 1-3 million dong.
If there are enough grounds to verify that the adulterous couple is living together as husband and wife, these people may be fined or criminally handled in accordance with the law.
Where the behavior falls under circumstances such as causing the marriage relationship of one or both parties to lead to divorce; has been administratively sanctioned for this act but still commits it; causing the wife, husband or child of either party to commit suicide, or there has been a court decision to annul the marriage or force the termination of the cohabitation as husband and wife contrary to the monogamy, but still If the violator maintains a relationship, the violator will be criminally handled for the crime of violating the monogamous regime under Article 182 of the Penal Code 2015.
Depending on the framing circumstances, the convicted person will receive a minimum sentence of up to one year of non-custodial reform and a prison term of up to three years at the most.
However, lawyer Cuong also emphasized that if it is determined that they are only embracing and kissing, having an emotional relationship but not living together as husband and wife, or just going back and forth but not living together, it is difficult to have grounds to sanction or prosecute. criminal proceedings against these people.
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