Luật sư Nguyễn Hữu Phước

For a divorce request which has not been accepted by the Court, the spouses have the right to resubmit the petition and initiate a lawsuit. The Court shall still review the petition and resolve the spouses’ request according to the civil proceedings[2]. However, if a spouse’s divorce petition is rejected by the Court, he or…

A marital separation is only a social term and not a legal term. In practice, a marital separation is a situation where the spouses suspend living together, or no longer taking care of each other and no longer having a physical relationship with each other. However, such suspension of living together has not yet terminated…

According to Article 56.2 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, if a spouse of a person who has been declared missing by the Court applies for divorce, the Court shall grant the divorce. The conditions for the Court to accept a request to declare a person missing is as follows[2]: The time period…

In principle, the right to marry as well as the right to divorce are individual rights, accompanying each person which consequently cannot be assigned to any third party[2]. Thus, either the husband or wife cannot authorise anyone to apply for a divorce on their behalf. However, they may authorise a third party, a person or…

Under the regulations of the Law on Marriage and Family, a marriage relation is considered a marriage and family relation involving foreign element when one of the following elements is found: The subject of the marriage and family relation has at least one spouse being a foreigner or a Vietnamese residing abroad; and The marriage…